CVE-2024-5495 is a high-severity use-after-free vulnerability in Dawn, affecting Google Chrome versions prior to 125.0.6422.141, as well as various Fedora and Microsoft Windows distributions running Chrome. This flaw allows a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption by enticing a user to visit a crafted HTML page. With a CVSS score of 8.8, the vulnerability has a high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, requiring user interaction but with low attack complexity. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there publicly available exploit modules in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, though it has garnered some community discussion and media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 125.0.6422.141CPE 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:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 125.0.6422.141, < 125.0.6422.141CPE 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.