Rewterz Threat Advisory – Multiple Google Chrome Vulnerabilities

Severity

High

Analysis Summary

CVE-2023-5187 CVSS:8.8

Google Chrome could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a use-after-free in Extensions. By persuading a victim to visit a specially crafted Web site, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service on the system.

CVE-2023-5186 CVSS:8.8

Google Chrome could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a use-after-free in Passwords. By persuading a victim to visit a specially crafted Web site, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service on the system.

CVE-2023-5217 CVSS:8.8

Google Chrome is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by vp8 encoding in libvpx. By persuading a victim to visit a specially crafted Web site, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the application to crash.

Impact

• Code Execution
• Buffer Overflow

Indicators Of Compromise

CVE

• CVE-2023-5187
• CVE-2023-5186
• CVE-2023-5217

Affected Vendors

Google

Affected Products

• Google Chrome 117.0

Remediation

Upgrade to the latest version of Google Chrome, available from the Google Chrome Releases Website.

Google Chrome Releases Website