CVE-2024-4671 — Chrome
CRITICALCVE-2024-4671 is a critical-severity (CVSS 9.6) Use After Free vulnerability. It is in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2024-05-13) — treat it as actively exploited and patch now. No vendor fix is recorded yet; mitigation options are listed below.
Exploitation Status
Actively exploited in the wild
- Confirmed by CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2024-05-13. Federal agencies were required to remediate by 2024-06-03.
- A successful exploit gives an attacker total control of the affected component, not partial access.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA (KEV catalog and SSVC triage) for CVE-2024-4671.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
How urgent is this, really
CVE-2024-4671 by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). Outside the shaded patch-first corner.
Where this sits among everything scored
Of 395,249 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the < 10% band (highlighted). Counts from FIRST.org, log-scaled.
Description
Use after free in Visuals in Google Chrome prior to 124.0.6367.201 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)
Affected Products
fedorafedoraprojectchromegoogleResearch use only. For defensive security, authorized penetration testing, and academic research only. Never execute exploit code against systems without explicit written authorization.
Use after free in Visuals in Google Chrome prior to 124.0.6367.201 allow…
Use after free in Visuals in Google Chrome prior to 124.0.6367.201 allow…
Use after free in Visuals in Google Chrome prior to 124.0.6367.201 allow…
Detection & mitigation playbook
VulnerabilityDetect
Identify every host running the affected component and compare the installed build against the fixed version below — for source-built or distro-packaged software the version string, not a lockfile, is the source of truth (`dpkg -l`, `rpm -q`, or the binary's own `--version`).
Remediation status
No fixed release is recorded for CVE-2024-4671 yet. Track the upstream advisory, and apply the exposure-reduction steps below in the meantime.
Mitigate without a patch
Constrain what reaches the vulnerable code: limit the size and shape of untrusted input, isolate the affected component in a sandboxed or least-privileged process, and enable the platform's memory-safety mitigations (ASLR, stack protector, hardened allocator) so an out-of-bounds access is more likely to fail closed than to be exploitable.
Fixing This On Your OS
If you run this on a Linux distribution, patch through your package manager against the distro's own security advisory below — it tracks the exact backported fix for your release, which can ship on a different timeline (and sometimes a different severity) than the upstream project.
Chromium is not shipped in any supported Red Hat offerings.
Until updated packages are released for Fedora and EPEL, consider temporarily swapping to an alternative web browser such as Firefox or severely restricting activity to sites you know well and trust.Source: Red Hat security advisory for CVE-2024-4671 (CC BY 4.0)
Frequently Asked Questions
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