CVE-2023-5855

2023-11-0100:00:00

ubuntu.com

google chrome

cve-2023-5855

use after free

reading mode

severity medium

heap corruption

remote attacker

ui gestures

CVSS3

8.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

AI Score

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.002

Percentile

55.4%

JSON

Use after free in Reading Mode in Google Chrome prior to 119.0.6045.105
allowed a remote attacker who convinced a user to engage in specific UI
gestures to potentially exploit heap corruption via specific UI gestures.
(Chromium security severity: Medium)

Notes

Author	Note
alexmurray	The Debian chromium source package is called chromium-browser in Ubuntu
mdeslaur	starting with Ubuntu 19.10, the chromium-browser package is just a script that installs the Chromium snap