CVE-2013-2840 is a use-after-free vulnerability in the media loader component of Google Chrome versions prior to 27.0.1453.93. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 7.5, indicating high severity, and could allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service or potentially achieve other unspecified impacts without requiring authentication or complex attack methods. While there is no evidence of active exploitation, nor publicly available exploit code in Metasploit or ExploitDB, the vulnerability has received some community discussion and media coverage, suggesting a degree of awareness.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 27.0.1453.91CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
27.0.1453.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:27.0.1453.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
27.0.1453.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:27.0.1453.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
27.0.1453.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:27.0.1453.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
27.0.1453.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:27.0.1453.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.