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Fencer Vulns
high 8.8

CVE-2024-7973 json

Heap buffer overflow in PDFium in Google Chrome prior to 128.0.6613.84 allowed a remote attacker to perform an out of bounds memory read vi…

published 2024-08-21 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2024-48806

cvss
8.8
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.8%
EPSS 0.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 55%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Heap buffer overflow in PDFium in Google Chrome prior to 128.0.6613.84 allowed a remote attacker to perform an out of bounds memory read via a crafted PDF file. (Chromium security severity: Medium)

Patch / fix

  • 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-2024-7973

  • 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-2024:0258-1openSUSE-SU-2024:0258-2openSUSE-SU-2024:14285-1

  • qt6-qtwebengine Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +1 more 6.7.2-r3

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2024-7973

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-2024-7973 updated cvss 8.8

chromium-browser: Heap buffer overflow in PDFium allows a remote attacker to perform an out of bounds memory read

  • 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

0.77% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 55% 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
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.