What is CVE-2023-7024?
Heap buffer overflow in WebRTC in Google Chrome prior to 120.0.6099.129 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)
The record classifies CVE-2023-7024 under weakness class CWE-787. 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. 1 affected-product entry is recorded, across 1 vendor, listed below. The identifier was first published 1042 days ago.
Severity and exploitation probability
- CVSS v3.1 base score
- 8.8 — HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - EPSS (FIRST)
- 6.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 93.7% of all scored CVEs
- CISA KEV
- Listed since 2024-01-02, federal remediation deadline 2024-01-23
- Threadlinqs priority
- 9/10 — CISA KEV-listed, which Threadlinqs floors at 9
- Published
- 2023-12-21, last modified 2025-10-21
Is CVE-2023-7024 being exploited?
CISA added CVE-2023-7024 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2024-01-02, which means the agency holds evidence of exploitation in the wild; US federal civilian agencies had to remediate it by 2024-01-23 under BOD 22-01. Weaponised exploit code for CVE-2023-7024 is publicly available. 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are tracked for this identifier. It currently carries a trending score of 46 in the Threadlinqs vulnerability feed.
- aka76bm/google-chrome-emergency-update (github)
- trickest/cve (trickest)
Affected products and versions
- Google: Chrome
How to fix CVE-2023-7024
Vendor advisory: https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2023/12/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_20.html. Because CVE-2023-7024 is KEV-listed, US federal civilian agencies were required to apply the vendor fix, or stop using the product, by 2024-01-23. 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-2023-7024
1 tracked threat in the Threadlinqs corpus references CVE-2023-7024, either in the campaign’s CVE list or as an indicator on the campaign record.
Sources
Enriched from CVE.org, NVD, FIRST EPSS, CISA KEV, GitHub Security Advisories, public proof-of-concept repositories. Last verified by Threadlinqs on . This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
Other references
- chromereleases.googleblog.com
- crbug.com
- debian.org
- lists.fedoraproject.org
- lists.fedoraproject.org (6M6AJDHUL6EDPURWQXGLUFJNDE7SOJT3)
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