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CVE-2018-17463
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…
High8.8Known exploitedEPSS 84.6%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Chrome
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.
Exploited in the wild
CISA lists this vulnerability in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog as Google Chromium V8 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability.
- Added
- 8 Jun 2022
- Fix due (US federal)
- 22 Jun 2022
- Used by ransomware
- Not known
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Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 84.6% · top 0.3% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: active · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Weakness
- Inappropriate implementation
- CWE-noinfo Not enough information
Affected products
References (8)
- DSA-4330 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- https://crbug.com/888923 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:3004 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- GLSA-201811-10 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2018/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 105666 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/156640/Google-Chrome-67-68-69-Object.create-Type-Confusion.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2018-17463 (opens in a new tab)government-resource
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- CISA KEV catalog (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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