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Vulnerability record

CVE-2018-17463

Google Chromium V8 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

HighExploitation confirmedCISA KEV
What should I do?

This vulnerability is in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog: attackers are using it. If you run Chromium V8, fix it now.

CISA required action: Apply updates per vendor instructions.

US federal civilian agencies must remediate by Jun 22, 2022.

Patch status

No official fix confirmed yet

Until a fix ships, follow the vendor's mitigations and CISA's required action, limit exposure of affected systems, and watch this record for a patch.

Description

Incorrect side effect annotation in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 70.0.3538.64 allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code inside a sandbox via a crafted HTML page.

Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database. Official vulnerability data, reproduced as published.

Affected products

ProductVendorAffected versionsFixed inSource
ChromeGoogle< 70.0.3538.6770.0.3538.67NVD
Chromium V8Google——KEV

Sources: NVD = NIST National Vulnerability Database; KEV = CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

Intelligence timeline

Developments from the last 30 days, newest first.

  1. CVSS scoredUpdateKEV

    CVE-2018-17463 scored CVSS 8.8: Google Chromium V8, Google Chromium V8 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

    CISA lists this as exploited in the wild. Unpatched Chromium V8 systems are exposed to active attacks now.

    Basis: NIST National Vulnerability Database

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