CVE-2023-4430
Published: 23 August 2023
Summary
CVE-2023-4430 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 6.2% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Deeper analysis
CVE-2023-4430 is a use-after-free vulnerability in the Vulkan component of Google Chrome versions prior to 116.0.5845.110. The flaw, assigned CWE-416 and rated High severity by Chromium, can result in heap corruption when processing a specially crafted HTML page. It carries a CVSS 3.1 base score of 8.8 reflecting network attack vector, low complexity, and no required privileges beyond user interaction.
A remote attacker can exploit the issue by persuading a victim to visit a malicious web page, after which successful exploitation may allow arbitrary code execution or other impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability within the browser process.
Chrome stable channel updates released on 2023-08-23 address the vulnerability by advancing to version 116.0.5845.110; downstream distributions such as Fedora have issued corresponding package updates to apply the same fix. The associated EPSS score reached a peak of 0.1313 with a current value of 0.1150, indicating moderate but not sharply rising exploitation interest after disclosure.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2023-54292
Vulnerability details
Use after free in Vulkan 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)
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Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
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.
Use-after-free exploits that achieve arbitrary code execution are blocked or significantly hardened by non-executable pages and ASLR.