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CVE-2023-5855
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…
High8.8EPSS 0.98%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Chrome
Description
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)
Timeline
ID reserved
By Chrome
- 2 days later
· 2 days later
Published
- 18 months later
· 18 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
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 · Modified | 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)
- 0.98% · top 37% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · 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
Affected products
References (9)
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2023/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_31.html (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://crbug.com/1492396 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5546 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/EBA4KD5ZSV6XWWFLVR5UBYKKNOYMH33H/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/2MHLJRFWZNY6BFOW25Q4FEESVWZKS4C2/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/PHWLT3M2AQDFD7RNAM3NJMYUC5KHMO5V/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202311-11 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202312-07 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-34 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
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)
- 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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