CVE-2023-39928

high

Description

A use-after-free vulnerability exists in the MediaRecorder API of Webkit WebKitGTK 2.40.5. A specially crafted web page can abuse this vulnerability to cause memory corruption and potentially arbitrary code execution. A user would need to to visit a malicious webpage to trigger this vulnerability.

References

https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5527

https://webkitgtk.org/security/WSA-2023-0009.html

https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2023-1831

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-33

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/4EEMDC5TQAANFH5D77QM34ZTUKXPFGVL/

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2023-10-06

Updated: 2024-01-31

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Critical

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High