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CVE-2014-7928

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-7928 is a memory corruption vulnerability in the Google V8 JavaScript engine, specifically within the hydrogen.cc component, affecting Google Chrome versions prior to 40.0.2214.91. This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service or potentially other unspecified impacts through crafted JavaScript that exploits improper handling of arrays with "holes" during array copy operations. With a CVSS score of 7.5, it is considered highly severe due to its network attack vector and low attack complexity, potentially leading to partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. While there is no evidence of active exploitation, nor publicly available exploit code in Metasploit or ExploitDB, the vulnerability garnered some community discussion and media coverage at the time of its disclosure.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 40.0.2214.85CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.34%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
90.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0434 is in the 83rd percentile among its peer group of 51,506 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: chromium-browser-0:40.0.2214.91-1.el6_6
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-7928Important

chromium-browser: memory corruption in V8

Jan 21, 2015

References

googlechromereleases.blogspot.com / 2015/01/stable-update.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00005.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-0093.html
code.google.com / p/chromium/issues/detail
codereview.chromium.org / 737383002
secunia.com / advisories/62383
secunia.com / advisories/62575
secunia.com / advisories/62665
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-201502-13.xml
securityfocus.com / bid/72288
securitytracker.com / id/1031623
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2476-1