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CVE-2024-7977

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2024-7977 describes an insufficient data validation vulnerability in the Google Chrome Installer on Windows, affecting versions prior to 128.0.6613.84. This flaw allows a local attacker to achieve privilege escalation by leveraging a malicious file. Rated as High severity with a CVSS score of 7.8, the vulnerability requires user interaction (UI:R) but has low attack complexity (AC:L), potentially leading to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:H/I:H/A:H). Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 128.0.6613.84CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 128.0.6613.84, < 128.0.6613.84CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.8HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.34%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
26.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0034 is in the 25th percentile among its peer group of 11,621 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based)Fixed in: 128.0.2739.42
googlevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

microsoft2024-Aug/CVE-2024-7977

Chromium: CVE-2024-7977 Insufficient data validation in Installer

Aug 13, 2024

References

chromereleases.googleblog.com / 2024/08/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_21.html
Release NotesVendor Advisory
issues.chromium.org / issues/324770940
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