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CVE-2023-5217 KEV

8.8
HIGH · CVSS 3.1 · EPSS 49% (pctl 99)

Patch first

On CISA KEV — known exploited in the wild, due 2023-10-23.

Description

Heap buffer overflow in vp8 encoding in libvpx in Google Chrome prior to 117.0.5938.132 and libvpx 1.13.1 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)

Scoring

CVSS8.8 (HIGH, v3.1)
VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS49.01% — more likely to be exploited than 99% of all CVEs
WeaknessCWE-787
On CISA KEVyes — remediate by 2023-10-23
Public exploitnone known
Published2023-09-28
Last modified2026-06-17

CISA KEV

NameGoogle Chromium libvpx Heap Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Added2023-10-02
Due2023-10-23
Vendor / productGoogle / Chromium libvpx
Ransomware usenone reported

Affected (11)

VendorProduct
appleipados
appleiphone os
debiandebian linux
fedoraprojectfedora
googlechrome
microsoftedge
microsoftedge chromium
mozillafirefox
mozillathunderbird
redhatenterprise linux
webmprojectlibvpx

References

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