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CVE-2023-5473 — Use after free in Cast in Google Chrome prior to 118

Use after free in Cast in Google Chrome prior to 118.0.5993.70 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Low)

CVSS
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EPSS
0.33% (top 44.80%)
CWE
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Published
2023-10-11T22:28:54.314Z
Last modified
2025-02-13T17:25:30.733Z
CVSS vector
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01What is this vulnerability?

Use after free in Cast in Google Chrome prior to 118.0.5993.70 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Low)

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
GoogleChrome118.0.5993.70

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

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

09References

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