CVE-2025-8880
Published: 13 August 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-8880 is a high-severity Race Condition (CWE-362) vulnerability in Google Chrome. Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Drive-by Compromise (T1189); ranked at the 37.2th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 RA-5 (Vulnerability Monitoring and Scanning) and SI-2 (Flaw Remediation).
Threat & Defense at a Glance
Threat & Defense Details
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5)AI
Directly mandates timely identification, reporting, and patching of the V8 race condition flaw in Chrome versions prior to 139.0.7258.127.
Enables vulnerability scanning to identify systems running vulnerable Chrome instances affected by CVE-2025-8880.
Requires monitoring and dissemination of security advisories like the Chrome update announcement to prompt flaw remediation.
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Race condition in V8 JS engine enables remote arbitrary code execution via crafted HTML page (drive-by), directly mapping to client-side exploitation and drive-by compromise.
NVD Description
Race in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 139.0.7258.127 allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code inside a sandbox via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)
Deeper analysisAI
CVE-2025-8880 is a race condition vulnerability (CWE-362) in the V8 JavaScript engine within Google Chrome versions prior to 139.0.7258.127. Published on 2025-08-13, it allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code inside the browser's sandbox via a crafted HTML page. Chromium security has rated it as High severity with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.8 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).
A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability by tricking a user into visiting a malicious website or interacting with a crafted HTML page, requiring no privileges but relying on user interaction. Successful exploitation grants arbitrary code execution confined to the sandbox, with high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
Mitigation is available via the Google Chrome stable channel update to version 139.0.7258.127 or later, as announced in the Chrome Releases blog post at https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2025/08/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_12.html and detailed in the Chromium issue tracker at https://issues.chromium.org/issues/433533359. Security practitioners should prioritize updating affected Chrome installations.
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