CVE-2025-0445 is a high-severity use-after-free vulnerability in the V8 JavaScript engine affecting Google Chrome versions prior to 133.0.6943.53. This flaw allows a remote attacker to potentially corrupt the heap and achieve limited impact on confidentiality and integrity by enticing a user to visit a specially crafted HTML page. While the CVSS score is Medium (5.4), indicating user interaction is required for exploitation, the Chromium team has rated it as High severity. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or inclusion in CISA's KEV catalog, though it has garnered some community discussion and media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 133.0.6943.53CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 133.0.6943.53, < 133.0.6943.53CPE 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:L/I:L/A:N
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.