CVE-2024-3832
Published: 17 April 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-3832 is a high-severity Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer (CWE-119) vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora. Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).
Operationally, ranked in the top 10.4% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
Deeper analysis
CVE-2024-3832 is an object corruption vulnerability in the V8 JavaScript engine within Google Chrome versions prior to 124.0.6367.60. The flaw, assigned a CVSS score of 8.8 and linked to CWE-119, permits memory corruption that can be triggered when a victim visits a malicious page.
A remote attacker can exploit the issue by serving a crafted HTML page that triggers the corruption in V8. Successful exploitation grants the attacker the ability to achieve high-impact effects on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, consistent with the potential for arbitrary code execution within the renderer process.
The primary mitigation is to update Chrome to version 124.0.6367.60 or later, as stated in the stable-channel release announcement. Downstream distributions such as Fedora have issued corresponding package updates to address the same defect.
The associated EPSS score reached a modest peak of 0.0575 before receding to the current value of 0.0473, indicating limited post-disclosure exploitation interest.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-32401
Vulnerability details
Object corruption in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 124.0.6367.60 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit object corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)
- CWE(s)
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.
Ongoing control assessments and code testing (static/dynamic analysis, fuzzing) surface memory buffer restriction failures, which are then remediated before release.
Managed runtimes used by platform-independent applications (e.g., JVM, CLR) enforce memory safety, preventing most buffer overflows that require direct memory manipulation.
Memory protections (e.g., W^X, ASLR) make exploitation of buffer-boundary violations far harder to turn into code execution.
Detects exploitation attempts that produce memory corruption, crashes, or anomalous behavior.