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CVE-2023-2725

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 24.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2023-05-16 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-416

Description

Use after free in Guest View in Google Chrome prior to 113.0.5672.126 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 11.0
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 37, 38
• Google Chrome: before 113.0.5672.126 — fixed in 113.0.5672.126

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Google Chrome 113.0.5672.126. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2023/05/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_16.html
• https://crbug.com/1442516
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/73XUIHJ6UT75VFPDPLJOXJON7MVIKVZI/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FXFL4TDAH72PRCPD5UPZMJMKIMVOPLTI/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-17
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202311-11
• https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5404
• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2023/05/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_16.html
• https://crbug.com/1442516
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/73XUIHJ6UT75VFPDPLJOXJON7MVIKVZI/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FXFL4TDAH72PRCPD5UPZMJMKIMVOPLTI/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-17

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