CVE-2023-5997
Use after free in Garbage Collection in Google Chrome prior to 119.0.6045.159 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity:
02 Description
Use after free in Garbage Collection in Google Chrome prior to 119.0.6045.159 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity:
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Assessed, none found. CISA's assessment recorded neither public exploit code nor evidence of exploitation when it was made.
- SSVC decision
- ExploitationnoneCISA recorded no public exploit code and no evidence of exploitation.
- AutomatablenoAt least one step from reconnaissance to exploitation cannot be reliably automated.
- Technical ImpacttotalSuccessful exploitation gives total control of the vulnerable component.
- EPSS probability
- 1.02% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 63.0% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 8.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2023-11-15 17:19Z2 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2025-12-16 18:23Z10 MO AGO
- Reserved
- 2023-11-07
- Assigning CNA
- Chrome
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416Use After FreeVariant
- Data version
- 5.2
- Document digest
- 8d8efea47b270b8ca712a1618255c0557b8c4ee84dbbffc979d2941581c83b65
05 Affected products
06 References
- chromereleases.googleblog.comhttps://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2023/11/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_14.html
- crbug.comhttps://crbug.com/1497997
- www.debian.orghttps://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5556
- lists.fedoraproject.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XWHRLW3GDNFBFSBHDD4QOPUPX7ORTUEC/
- security.gentoo.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202311-11
- lists.fedoraproject.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JHUI5HW7QXT3U74MJMTLUMF5REDO5HD5/
- lists.fedoraproject.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MN3JQGEC4EFQP3WTI33YBD3CLC3I7P4X/
- security.gentoo.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202312-07
- security.gentoo.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-34
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- chromium Fixed in 119.0.6045.159-1~deb12u1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- chromium Fixed in 119.0.6045.159-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- chromium Fixed in 119.0.6045.159-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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