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CVE-2014-3188

• Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 6.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2014-10-08 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-94

Description

Google Chrome before 38.0.2125.101 and Chrome OS before 38.0.2125.101 do not properly handle the interaction of IPC and Google V8, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving JSON data, related to improper parsing of an escaped index by ParseJsonObject in json-parser.h.

Affected products

• Google Chrome: through 38.0.2125.7
• Google ChromeOS: through 38.0.2125.77
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary: 6.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary: 6.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary Eus: 6.6.z
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary: 6.0

References

• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2014/10/stable-channel-update-for-chrome-os.html
• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2014/10/stable-channel-update.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1626.html
• https://code.google.com/p/v8/source/detail?r=24125
• https://crbug.com/416449
• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2014/10/stable-channel-update-for-chrome-os.html
• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2014/10/stable-channel-update.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1626.html
• https://code.google.com/p/v8/source/detail?r=24125
• https://crbug.com/416449

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