CVE-2024-5159 is a high-severity heap buffer overflow vulnerability in ANGLE, affecting Google Chrome versions prior to 125.0.6422.76 and related Fedora products. This flaw allows a remote attacker to achieve out-of-bounds memory reads by enticing a user to visit a specially crafted HTML page. With a CVSS score of 8.8, the vulnerability is easily exploitable over a network with low complexity, potentially leading to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not currently listed in CISA's KEV catalog and lacking public exploit code in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, it has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness and potential future exploitation.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 125.0.6422.76CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
39CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:39:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
40CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:40:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 125.0.6422.76, < 125.0.6422.76CPE 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.