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Fencer Vulns
high 8.8

CVE-2023-2033 kev in the critical feed json

Type confusion in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 112.0.5615.121 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafte…

published 2023-04-14 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2023-33560

cvss
8.8
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Exploited
added 2023-04-17
epss
40.6%
EPSS 40.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 98%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Type confusion in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 112.0.5615.121 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)

Patch / fix

cisa required action Apply updates per vendor instructions.

  • google chrome 112.0.5615.121
  • couchbase couchbase_server 7.1.5
  • chromium Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 112.0.5615.121-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2023-2033

  • chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 112.0.5615.121-1.1
  • nodejs-electron openSUSE Tumbleweed 22.3.7-1.1
  • chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 113.0.5672.92-1.1
  • opera openSUSE Leap 15.5 NonFree 99.0.4788.13-lp155.3.6.1
  • opera openSUSE Leap 15.4 NonFree 99.0.4788.13-lp154.2.47.1
  • chromium Package Hub 15 SP4, openSUSE Leap 15.4 112.0.5615.121-bp154.2.79.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:12867-1openSUSE-SU-2024:12897-1openSUSE-SU-2024:12948-1openSUSE-SU-2023:0115-1openSUSE-SU-2023:0114-1openSUSE-SU-2023:0092-1

  • qt5-qtwebengine Alpine 3.17 5.15.12-r4
  • qt5-qtwebengine Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22, Alpine 3.21 +3 more 5.15.13-r1

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2023-2033

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2023-2033 updated cvss 8.8

chromium-browser: Type Confusion in V8

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. Found exploited as a 0-day (Project Zero)
  2. 0-day patched (Project Zero)
  3. Published
  4. Added to CISA KEV
  5. CISA patch deadline
  6. CISA SSVC: exploitation active

Known exploited

Added
3 y ago
Patch by
2023-05-08 (3 y ago)
Ransomware
Not known
Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.
Vendor, product
Google, Chromium V8
CISA name
Google Chromium V8 Type Confusion Vulnerability

Zero-day

Detected in real attacks while still unknown to the vendor and the public, per Google Project Zero's 0day In-the-Wild tracker.

Found
2023-04-11
Patched
2023-04-14
Details
project zero tracker

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Active, exploited in the wild
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
21 mo ago

Exploit prediction

40.65% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CNA 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

  • Google Chrome

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-843 Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type
Technology feeds

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.