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high 8.8

CVE-2024-7971 kev in the critical feed json

Type confusion in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 128.0.6613.84 allowed a remote attacker to exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

published 2024-08-21 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2024-48804

cvss
8.8
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Exploited
added 2024-08-26
epss
21.0%
EPSS 21.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 97%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Type confusion in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 128.0.6613.84 allowed a remote attacker to exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)

Patch / fix

cisa required action Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

  • Google Chrome 128.0.6613.84
  • chromium Debian 12 128.0.6613.84-1~deb12u1
  • chromium Debian 14, Debian 13 128.0.6613.84-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2024-7971

  • libqt5-qtwebengine openSUSE Tumbleweed 5.15.18-1.1
  • opera openSUSE Leap 15.6 NonFree 113.0.5230.32-lp156.2.17.1
  • chromium Package Hub 15 SP6, Package Hub 15 SP5, openSUSE Leap 15.6 +1 more 128.0.6613.84-bp156.2.17.1
  • chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 128.0.6613.84-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:14548-1openSUSE-SU-2024:0275-1openSUSE-SU-2024:0258-1openSUSE-SU-2024:0258-2openSUSE-SU-2024:14285-1

  • qt5-qtwebengine Alpine 3.20 5.15.16-r11
  • qt5-qtwebengine Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22, Alpine 3.21 5.15.17-r2
  • qt6-qtwebengine Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +1 more 6.7.2-r3

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2024-7971

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-2024-7971 updated cvss 9.6

chromium-browser: Type confusion in V8 in Google Chrome allows a remote attacker to exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present “Until updated packages are released for Fedora and EPEL, consider temporarily swapping to an alternative web browser such as Firefox or severely restricting activity to sites you know well and trust.”

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

Known exploited

Added
2 y ago
Patch by
2024-09-16 (2 y ago)
Ransomware
Not known
Required action
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
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.

Patched
2024-08-21
Details
project zero tracker

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Active, exploited in the wild
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

21.01% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • microsoft.com https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2024/08/30/north-korean-threat-actor-citrine-sleet-exploiting-chromium-zero-day/ referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

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 9.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/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.

CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.