Use after free in Navigation in Google Chrome prior to 113.0.5672.126 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via…

published 2023-05-16 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2023-34185

cvss: 8.8; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.9%; EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 59%
public exploits: 0; none known

Use after free in Navigation in Google Chrome prior to 113.0.5672.126 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Critical)

Patch / fix

fixed in 1 distros 3

google chrome 113.0.5672.126

debian opensuse alpine

chromium Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 113.0.5672.126-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2023-2721

chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 113.0.5672.126-1.1
chromium Package Hub 15 SP4, openSUSE Leap 15.4 113.0.5672.126-bp154.2.87.1
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

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:12938-1 openSUSE-SU-2024:12962-1 openSUSE-SU-2023:0117-1 openSUSE-SU-2023:0115-1 openSUSE-SU-2023:0114-1

qt5-qtwebengine Alpine 3.18 5.15.13-r2
qt5-qtwebengine Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22, Alpine 3.21 +2 more 5.15.14-r2

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2023-2721

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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-2023-2721 updated 2025-11-21 cvss 9.6

chromium-browser: Use after free in Navigation

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

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: total
Assessed: 18 mo ago (2025-04-23)

Exploit prediction

0.87% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 59% 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-416 Use After Free

Technology feeds

Google Chrome rss critical rss

References

chromereleases.googleblog.com /2023/05/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_16.html
release-notes
crbug.com /1444360
permissions-required
debian.org /security/2023/dsa-5404
third-party-advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org /archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/73XUIHJ6UT75VFPDPLJOXJON7MVIKVZI/
mailing-list
lists.fedoraproject.org /archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FXFL4TDAH72PRCPD5UPZMJMKIMVOPLTI/
mailing-list
security.gentoo.org /glsa/202309-17
third-party-advisory
security.gentoo.org /glsa/202311-11

Sources

CVE List CVE-2023-2721
NVD CVE-2023-2721

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Summary