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CVE-2024-5274 — Chrome

CRITICAL

CVE-2024-5274 is a critical-severity (CVSS 9.6) CWE-843 vulnerability. It is in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2024-05-28) — treat it as actively exploited and patch now. No vendor fix is recorded yet; mitigation options are listed below.

Published
Updated
Affected
2 products
Patched
See advisory
Exploits
8 known
Exploitation data as of Oct 22, 2026 · OSV.dev, NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org (EPSS)

Exploitation Status

Actively exploited in the wild

  • Confirmed by CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2024-05-28. Federal agencies were required to remediate by 2024-06-18.
  • 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-2024-5274.

EPSS Exploitation Probability

via FIRST.org ↗
7.5%probability of exploitation in next 30 days
Lower Risk0.00%
Lower risk than most CVEs94th percentile — riskier than 94% of all scored CVEsHighest risk
4.35%6.68%9.00%11.3%5.7%7.5%Apr 26Aug 26Oct 26

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.

How urgent is this, really

CVE-2024-5274 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

Type Confusion in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 125.0.6422.112 allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code inside a sandbox via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)

Affected Products

2 products · 3 configurations
OS
fedorafedoraproject
2 versions
3940
Application
chromegoogle
< 125.0.6422.112
range
Exploits & PoCs
8

Research use only. For defensive security, authorized penetration testing, and academic research only. Never execute exploit code against systems without explicit written authorization.

Detection & mitigation playbook

Vulnerability
  1. Detect

    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`).

  2. Remediation status

    No fixed release is recorded for CVE-2024-5274 yet. Track the upstream advisory, and apply the exposure-reduction steps below in the meantime.

  3. Mitigate without a patch

    If you can't upgrade right away: gate or disable the affected feature, validate untrusted input at the boundary, and avoid passing attacker-controlled data into the vulnerable path. O3's runtime protection blocks exploitation in production as an interim safeguard until the upgrade lands.

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.

Red HatImportant

Chromium is not shipped in any supported Red Hat offerings.

Workaround published by Red Hat
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 known well and trust.
Source: Red Hat security advisory for CVE-2024-5274 (CC BY 4.0)

Frequently Asked Questions

Type Confusion in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 125.0.6422.112 allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code inside a sandbox via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)
O3 Security · Impact-Aware SCA

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CVE-2024-5274: Chrome RCE (Critical 9.6, KEV)