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Fencer Vulns
high 8.8

CVE-2023-5997 json

Use after free in Garbage Collection in Google Chrome prior to 119.0.6045.159 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corrupt…

published 2023-11-15 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2023-58264

cvss
8.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.0%
EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 63%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Use after free in Garbage Collection in Google Chrome prior to 119.0.6045.159 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)

Patch / fix

  • google chrome 119.0.6045.159
  • chromium Debian 12 119.0.6045.159-1~deb12u1
  • chromium Debian 14, Debian 13 119.0.6045.159-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2023-5997

  • chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 119.0.6045.159-1.1
  • opera openSUSE Leap 15.5 NonFree 105.0.4970.21-lp155.3.21.1
  • opera openSUSE Leap 15.4 NonFree 105.0.4970.21-lp154.2.62.1
  • chromium Package Hub 15 SP5, Package Hub 15 SP4, openSUSE Leap 15.5 +1 more 119.0.6045.159-bp155.2.58.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:13424-1openSUSE-SU-2024:13447-1openSUSE-SU-2023:0386-1openSUSE-SU-2023:0385-1openSUSE-SU-2023:0372-1

  • qt5-qtwebengine Alpine 3.18 5.15.13-r12
  • qt5-qtwebengine Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22, Alpine 3.21 +2 more 5.15.16-r0
  • qt6-qtwebengine Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +3 more 6.6.0-r6

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2023-5997

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-2023-5997 updated cvss 8.8

chromium-browser: use-after-free in Garbage Collection

  • 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
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

1.02% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 63% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 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
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.