CVE-2024-3159 is a high-severity out-of-bounds memory access vulnerability in Google Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine, affecting versions prior to 123.0.6312.105. This flaw allows a remote attacker to achieve arbitrary read/write capabilities by enticing a user to visit a specially crafted HTML page. The vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 8.8 (High), indicating a critical risk due to its network-based attack vector, low attack complexity, and high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While no public exploit code is currently available, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, with multiple articles from BleepingComputer indicating it has been actively exploited as a zero-day in the past.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 123.0.6312.105CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 123.0.6312.105, < 123.0.6312.105CPE match | cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.1 Security Researcher mentions.