Risk Letters

Exploited vulnerability

CVE-2023-5217

TLP:CLEAR

Google Chromium libvpx Heap Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Google Chromium libvpx contains a heap buffer overflow vulnerability in vp8 encoding that allows a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. This vulnerability could impact web browsers using libvpx, including but not limited to Google Chrome.

Facts

  • Vendor: Google
  • Product: Chromium libvpx
  • CVSS: 8.8
  • EPSS (probability of exploitation within 30 days): 49 %
  • On CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list since: 2 October 2023
  • First known exploitation: 2 October 2023
  • CISA's deadline for US federal agencies: 23 October 2023
  • Weakness: CWE-787
  • First seen by Risk Letters: 2 October 2023

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Data: NVD (public domain), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, MITRE ATT&CK, AlienVault OTX. NVD