CVE-2024-5495

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2024-05-30 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-416

Description

Use after free in Dawn in Google Chrome prior to 125.0.6422.141 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)

Affected products

Fedoraproject Fedora: 39, 40
Google Chrome: before 125.0.6422.141 — fixed in 125.0.6422.141

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Google Chrome 125.0.6422.141. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2024/05/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_30.html
https://issues.chromium.org/issues/338103465
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/D5SQOWDIVBXQYQPPBSCH7EFISYAOCTHD/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZW4TZXVPN3NLZ4UDGZP6OASUM4OVLXX2/
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2024/05/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_30.html
https://issues.chromium.org/issues/338103465
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/D5SQOWDIVBXQYQPPBSCH7EFISYAOCTHD/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZW4TZXVPN3NLZ4UDGZP6OASUM4OVLXX2/

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