CVE-2024-0222
Published: 04 January 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-0222 is a high-severity Use After Free (CWE-416) vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora. Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Drive-by Compromise (T1189); ranked in the top 36.2% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-16021
Vulnerability details
Use after free in ANGLE in Google Chrome prior to 120.0.6099.199 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Use-after-free vulnerability in Chrome's ANGLE graphics library exploitable via crafted HTML page enables drive-by compromise (T1189) and exploitation for client execution (T1203) by a remote attacker compromising the renderer process for heap corruption.
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.