Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-4429

High

Published: 23 August 2023

Published
23 August 2023
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0042 62.4th percentile
Risk Priority 18 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-4429 is a high-severity Use After Free (CWE-416) vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora. Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 37.6% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Use after free in Loader in Google Chrome prior to 116.0.5845.110 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)

CWE(s)
CWE-416

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

google
chrome
≤ 116.0.5845.110
fedoraproject
fedora
37, 38, 39
debian
debian linux
11.0, 12.0

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

SI-16 Memory Protection
addresses: CWE-416

Use-after-free exploits that achieve arbitrary code execution are blocked or significantly hardened by non-executable pages and ASLR.

References