CVE-2023-2136 — Google Chrome
CISA KEVAs of 2025-10-24, CVE-2023-2136 is a CRITICAL-severity vulnerability in Google Chrome, CVSS v3.1 9.6, EPSS 0.6% (70.9th percentile). It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2023-04-21), with a US federal remediation deadline of 2023-05-12. Threadlinqs Intelligence links 1 tracked threat campaign to CVE-2023-2136, most recently “Hack-for-Hire Espionage Campaign Targeting MENA Civil Society via Predator/Intellexa Mercenary Spyware”.
Last updated: 2025-10-24
What is CVE-2023-2136?
Integer overflow in Skia in Google Chrome prior to 112.0.5615.137 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)
The record classifies CVE-2023-2136 under weakness class CWE-190. Its CVSS v3 base vector states that the flaw is reachable remotely over the network, needs no prior authentication, needs a user to take an action first, and has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, availability. 5 affected-product entries are recorded, across 3 vendors, listed below. The identifier was first published 1243 days ago.
Severity and exploitation probability
- CVSS v3.1 base score
- 9.6 — CRITICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H - EPSS (FIRST)
- 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 70.9% of all scored CVEs
- CISA KEV
- Listed since 2023-04-21, federal remediation deadline 2023-05-12
- Threadlinqs priority
- 9/10 — CISA KEV-listed, which Threadlinqs floors at 9
- Published
- 2023-04-19, last modified 2025-10-24
Is CVE-2023-2136 being exploited?
CISA added CVE-2023-2136 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2023-04-21, which means the agency holds evidence of exploitation in the wild; US federal civilian agencies had to remediate it by 2023-05-12 under BOD 22-01. It currently carries a trending score of 33 in the Threadlinqs vulnerability feed.
Affected products and versions
- Google: Chrome
- Debian: Linux 11.0
- Fedoraproject: Fedora 36, Fedora 37, Fedora 38
How to fix CVE-2023-2136
The record marks a vendor fix as available for CVE-2023-2136. Vendor advisory: https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2023/04/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_18.html. Because CVE-2023-2136 is KEV-listed, US federal civilian agencies were required to apply the vendor fix, or stop using the product, by 2023-05-12. Apply the vendor fix referenced above to every affected product listed in this record, then confirm the running version against the vendor advisory.
Threat activity tracking CVE-2023-2136
1 tracked threat in the Threadlinqs corpus references CVE-2023-2136, either in the campaign’s CVE list or as an indicator on the campaign record.
- Hack-for-Hire Espionage Campaign Targeting MENA Civil Society via Predator/Intellexa Mercenary Spyware — HIGH · 2026-04-08
Sources
Seeded from nvd and not yet processed by the Threadlinqs enrichment pipeline, so blank CVSS, EPSS or KEV fields above mean NOT MEASURED rather than measured-absent.
- chromereleases.googleblog.com
- crbug.com
- lists.fedoraproject.org
- lists.fedoraproject.org (ES2CDRHR2Y4WY6DNDIAPYZFXJU3ZBFAV)
- lists.fedoraproject.org (FEJZMAUB4XP44HSHEBDWEKFGA7DUHY42)
- lists.fedoraproject.org (IHHD6KNH4WLUE6JG6HRQZWNAJMHJ32X7)
- lists.fedoraproject.org (RJQI63HWZFL6M26Q6UOHKDY6LD2PFC5Z)
- lists.fedoraproject.org (SLO7BL2MHZYPY6O3OAEAQL3SKYMGGO6M)
- security.gentoo.org
- debian.org
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