CVE-2023-5472 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Use after free in Profiles in Google Chrome prior to 118.0.5993.117 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.01458.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Vendors	Products
Debian	Debian Linux
Fedoraproject	Fedora
Google	Chrome

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 2 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:11.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:12.0:::::::*

Configuration 3 [-]

cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:38:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

No data.

No data.

Advisories

Source	ID	Title
Debian DSA	DSA-5536-1	chromium security update

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2023/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_24.html
https://crbug.com/1491296
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5TWIUD4VIISLZWEQ4WLWFZT34T3KOXZB/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RA6HMWNOYQ56R35MHW77GVW7373Z4RSN/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TDMQG42VVOZ5USSI4NSNT3VJPGBPNSIW/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-34
https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5536

History

Thu, 01 May 2025 19:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Chrome

Published: 2023-10-25T16:14:06.595Z

Updated: 2025-05-01T18:31:07.785Z

Reserved: 2023-10-10T00:12:39.710Z

Link: CVE-2023-5472

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T07:59:44.691Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-10-25T18:17:43.667

Modified: 2025-05-01T19:15:56.893

Link: CVE-2023-5472

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

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