CVE-2024-4948 is a high-severity use-after-free vulnerability in Dawn, affecting Google Chrome versions prior to 125.0.6422.60, as well as Fedora Project's Chrome and Fedora. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw by crafting a malicious HTML page, potentially leading to heap corruption and denial of service. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.5 (Medium), indicating a network-based attack with low complexity requiring user interaction. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), it has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, including a report from SecurityWeek.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 125.0.6422.60CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
38CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:38:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
39CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:39:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
40CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:40:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 125.0.6422.60, < 125.0.6422.60CPE 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:N/I:N/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.