CVE-2023-3742 — Insufficient policy enforcement in ADB in Google Chrome on ChromeOS prior to 114

Insufficient policy enforcement in ADB in Google Chrome on ChromeOS prior to 114.0.5735.90 allowed a local attacker to bypass device policy restrictions via physical access to the device. (Chromium security severity: High)

01What is this vulnerability?

Insufficient policy enforcement in ADB in Google Chrome on ChromeOS prior to 114.0.5735.90 allowed a local attacker to bypass device policy restrictions via physical access to the device. (Chromium security severity: High)

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Google	Chrome	114.0.5735.90

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2023-12-20T15:30:14.710Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-02T07:01:57.520Z

09References

• bugs.chromium.org — https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1443292
• crbug.com — https://crbug.com/1443292