CVE-2025-12438 json
Use after free in Ozone in Google Chrome on Linux and ChromeOS prior to 142.0.7444.59 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit obje…
published 2025-11-10 11 mo ago modified 2026-10-07 32 d ago also EUVD-2025-50781
- cvss
- 8.8
- version 3.1, CNA
- cisa kev
- Not listed
- not in CISA's catalog
- epss
- 0.3%
- EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 18%
- public exploits
- 0
- none known
Summary
Use after free in Ozone in Google Chrome on Linux and ChromeOS prior to 142.0.7444.59 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit object corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Medium)
Patch / fix
- google chrome 142.0.7444.59
- chromium Debian 12 142.0.7444.59-1~deb12u1
- chromium Debian 13 142.0.7444.59-1~deb13u1
- chromium Debian 14 142.0.7444.59-1
debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2025-12438
- chromium openSUSE Leap 16.0 142.0.7444.162-bp160.1.1
- chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 142.0.7444.59-2.1
opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2025:20076-1openSUSE-SU-2025:15687-1
- qt6-qtwebengine Alpine 3.22 6.8.3-r6
- qt6-qtwebengine Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23 6.10.0-r1
alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2025-12438
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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-2025-12438 updated cvss 8.8
chromium-browser: Use after free in Ozone
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Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat productsnot 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
- 11 mo ago
Exploit prediction
0.26% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 18% 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 |
| 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
References
-
chromereleases.googleblog.com
/2025/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_28.html
release-notes, vendor-advisory
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issues.chromium.org
/issues/433027577
issue-tracking, permissions-required
Sources
- CVE List CVE-2025-12438
- NVD CVE-2025-12438
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CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.