Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-5843

Medium

Published: 11 June 2024

Published
11 June 2024
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0008 23.1th percentile
Risk Priority 13 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-5843 is a medium-severity Type Confusion (CWE-843) vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Masquerading (T1036); ranked at the 23.1th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Inappropriate implementation in Downloads in Google Chrome prior to 126.0.6478.54 allowed a remote attacker to obfuscate security UI via a malicious file. (Chromium security severity: Medium)

CWE(s)
NVD-CWE-noinfoCWE-843

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1036 Masquerading Stealth
Adversaries may attempt to manipulate features of their artifacts to make them appear legitimate or benign to users and/or security tools.
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Why these techniques?

The vulnerability enables obfuscation of Chrome's download security UI via a malicious file, allowing adversaries to masquerade malicious downloads as legitimate or safe to evade user detection.

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