Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-5836

High

Published: 11 June 2024

Published
11 June 2024
Modified
14 March 2025
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 0.0047 64.9th percentile
Risk Priority 18 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-5836 is a high-severity Use of Function with Inconsistent Implementations (CWE-474) vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora. Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Browser Extensions (T1176.001); ranked in the top 35.1% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Inappropriate Implementation in DevTools in Google Chrome prior to 126.0.6478.54 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Chrome Extension. (Chromium security severity: High)

CWE(s)
NVD-CWE-noinfoCWE-474

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1176.001 Browser Extensions Persistence
Adversaries may abuse internet browser extensions to establish persistent access to victim systems.
attack.mitre.org →
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution Execution
Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities in client applications to execute code.
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Why these techniques?

Vulnerability in Chrome DevTools enables malicious browser extensions to execute arbitrary code after user installation, facilitating browser extension abuse (T1176.001) and exploitation for client-side code execution (T1203).

Affected Assets

google
chrome
≤ 126.0.6478.54
fedoraproject
fedora
39, 40

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References