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CVE-2024-7973

Aug. 26, 2024, 3:13 p.m.

CVSS Score

8.8 / 10

Products Impacted

Vendor Product Versions
google
  • chrome
  • *

Description

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)

Weaknesses

CWE-122
Heap-based Buffer Overflow

A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc().

CWE ID: 122
CWE-787
Out-of-bounds Write

The product writes data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer.

CWE ID: 787

Date

Published: Aug. 21, 2024, 9:15 p.m.

Last Modified: Aug. 26, 2024, 3:13 p.m.

Status : Analyzed

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

More info

Source

chrome-cve-admin@google.com

CPEs

Type Vendor Product Version Update Edition Language Software Edition Target Software Target Hardware Other Information
a google chrome / / / / / / / /

CVSS Data

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score
8.8
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.9
Base Severity
HIGH
CVSS Vector String

The CVSS vector string provides an in-depth view of the vulnerability metrics.

View Vector String

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/ chrome-cve-admin@google.com

https://issues.chromium.org/ chrome-cve-admin@google.com