What is CVE-2024-7971?
Type confusion in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 128.0.6613.84 allowed a remote attacker to exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)
The record classifies CVE-2024-7971 under weakness class CWE-843. 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. 2 affected-product entries are recorded, across 2 vendors, listed below. The identifier was first published 775 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)
- 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 77.1% of all scored CVEs
- CISA KEV
- Listed since 2024-08-26, federal remediation deadline 2024-09-16
- Threadlinqs priority
- 9/10 — CISA KEV-listed, which Threadlinqs floors at 9
- Published
- 2024-08-21, last modified 2025-10-24
Is CVE-2024-7971 being exploited?
CISA added CVE-2024-7971 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2024-08-26, which means the agency holds evidence of exploitation in the wild; US federal civilian agencies had to remediate it by 2024-09-16 under BOD 22-01. It currently carries a trending score of 34 in the Threadlinqs vulnerability feed.
Affected products and versions
How to fix CVE-2024-7971
The record marks a vendor fix as available for CVE-2024-7971. Patch reference: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2024/08/30/north-korean-threat-actor-citrine-sleet-exploiting-chromium-zero-day/. Vendor advisory: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2024/08/30/north-korean-threat-actor-citrine-sleet-exploiting-chromium-zero-day/. Because CVE-2024-7971 is KEV-listed, US federal civilian agencies were required to apply the vendor fix, or stop using the product, by 2024-09-16. 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-2024-7971
1 tracked threat in the Threadlinqs corpus references CVE-2024-7971, either in the campaign’s CVE list or as an indicator on the campaign record.
- LABYRINTH CHOLLIMA Evolves into Three DPRK Adversaries — CRITICAL · 2026-02-12
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.