CVE-2023-2136 — Google Chrome Vulnerability

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 1292 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): 5.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 92.8% 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 2025-10-21

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. Weaponised exploit code for CVE-2023-2136 is publicly available. 1 public proof-of-concept repository is tracked for this identifier. It currently carries a trending score of 46 in the Threadlinqs vulnerability feed.

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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

Enriched from CVE.org, FIRST EPSS, CISA KEV, public proof-of-concept repositories. Last verified by Threadlinqs on 2026-10-10.

Other references

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