Use after free in Profiles in Google Chrome prior to 118.0.5993.117 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202401-34 (Chromium, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge:
Multiple Vulnerabilities)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Chromium and its derivatives. Please review the CVE     identifiers referenced below for details.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Gentoo Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 39 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-0b39dc9302 advisory.

  - Type confusion in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 117.0.5938.149 allowed a remote attacker to potentially     exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High) (CVE-2023-5346)

  - Use after free in Profiles in Google Chrome prior to 118.0.5993.117 allowed a remote attacker to     potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)     (CVE-2023-5472)

  - Use after free in Site Isolation in Google Chrome prior to 118.0.5993.70 allowed a remote attacker to     potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Critical)     (CVE-2023-5218)

  - 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) (CVE-2023-5473)

  - Heap buffer overflow in PDF in Google Chrome prior to 118.0.5993.70 allowed a remote attacker who     convinced a user to engage in specific user interactions to potentially exploit heap corruption via a     crafted PDF file. (Chromium security severity: Medium) (CVE-2023-5474)

  - Inappropriate implementation in DevTools in Google Chrome prior to 118.0.5993.70 allowed an attacker who     convinced a user to install a malicious extension to bypass discretionary access control via a crafted     Chrome Extension. (Chromium security severity: Medium) (CVE-2023-5475)

  - Use after free in Blink History in Google Chrome prior to 118.0.5993.70 allowed a remote attacker to     potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Medium)     (CVE-2023-5476)

  - Inappropriate implementation in Installer in Google Chrome prior to 118.0.5993.70 allowed a local attacker     to bypass discretionary access control via a crafted command. (Chromium security severity: Low)     (CVE-2023-5477)

  - Inappropriate implementation in Autofill in Google Chrome prior to 118.0.5993.70 allowed a remote attacker     to leak cross-origin data via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Low) (CVE-2023-5478)

  - Inappropriate implementation in Extensions API in Google Chrome prior to 118.0.5993.70 allowed an attacker     who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to bypass an enterprise policy via a crafted HTML     page. (Chromium security severity: Medium) (CVE-2023-5479)

  - Inappropriate implementation in Downloads in Google Chrome prior to 118.0.5993.70 allowed a remote     attacker to spoof security UI via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Medium)     (CVE-2023-5481)

  - Inappropriate implementation in Intents in Google Chrome prior to 118.0.5993.70 allowed a remote attacker     to bypass content security policy via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Medium)     (CVE-2023-5483)

  - Inappropriate implementation in Navigation in Google Chrome prior to 118.0.5993.70 allowed a remote     attacker to spoof security UI via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Medium)     (CVE-2023-5484)

  - Inappropriate implementation in Autofill in Google Chrome prior to 118.0.5993.70 allowed a remote attacker     to bypass autofill restrictions via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Low) (CVE-2023-5485)

  - Inappropriate implementation in Input in Google Chrome prior to 118.0.5993.70 allowed a remote attacker to     spoof security UI via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Low) (CVE-2023-5486)

  - Inappropriate implementation in Fullscreen in Google Chrome prior to 118.0.5993.70 allowed an attacker who     convinced a user to install a malicious extension to bypass navigation restrictions via a crafted Chrome     Extension. (Chromium security severity: Medium) (CVE-2023-5487)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote openSUSE 15 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the openSUSE- SU-2023:0353-1 advisory.

  - Use after free in Profiles in Google Chrome prior to 118.0.5993.117 allowed a remote attacker to     potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)     (CVE-2023-5472)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote openSUSE 15 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the openSUSE- SU-2023:0354-1 advisory.

  - Use after free in Profiles in Google Chrome prior to 118.0.5993.117 allowed a remote attacker to     potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)     (CVE-2023-5472)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 37 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-7f87c8b975 advisory.

  - Use after free in Profiles in Google Chrome prior to 118.0.5993.117 allowed a remote attacker to     potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)     (CVE-2023-5472)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 38 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-a9062a0411 advisory.

  - Use after free in Profiles in Google Chrome prior to 118.0.5993.117 allowed a remote attacker to     potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)     (CVE-2023-5472)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Debian 11 / 12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dsa-5536 advisory.

  - Use after free in Profiles in Google Chrome prior to 118.0.5993.117 allowed a remote attacker to     potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)     (CVE-2023-5472)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of FreeBSD installed on the remote host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the db33e250-74f7-11ee-8290-a8a1599412c6 advisory.

  - Use after free in Profiles in Google Chrome prior to 118.0.5993.117 allowed a remote attacker to     potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)     (CVE-2023-5472)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of Microsoft Edge installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 118.0.2088.76. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the October 27, 2023 advisory.

  - Use after free in Profiles in Google Chrome prior to 118.0.5993.117 allowed a remote attacker to     potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)     (CVE-2023-5472)

  - Use After Free vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to achieve an application     denial-of-service in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a     victim must open a malicious file. (CVE-2023-44323)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the openSUSE- SU-2023:0325-1 advisory.

  - Use after free in Profiles in Google Chrome prior to 118.0.5993.117 allowed a remote attacker to     potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)     (CVE-2023-5472)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of Google Chrome installed on the remote macOS host is prior to 118.0.5993.117. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the 2023_10_stable-channel-update-for-desktop_24 advisory.

  - Use after free in Profiles. (CVE-2023-5472)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of Google Chrome installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 118.0.5993.117. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the 2023_10_stable-channel-update-for-desktop_24 advisory.

  - Use after free in Profiles. (CVE-2023-5472)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
189844	GLSA-202401-34 : Chromium, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge: Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	critical
185166	Fedora 39 : chromium (2023-0b39dc9302)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
184438	openSUSE 15 Security Update : opera (openSUSE-SU-2023:0353-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
184437	openSUSE 15 Security Update : opera (openSUSE-SU-2023:0354-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
184309	Fedora 37 : chromium (2023-7f87c8b975)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
183998	Fedora 38 : chromium (2023-a9062a0411)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
183985	Debian DSA-5536-1 : chromium - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
183983	FreeBSD : chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities (db33e250-74f7-11ee-8290-a8a1599412c6)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	high
183979	Microsoft Edge (Chromium) < 118.0.2088.76 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	Windows	high
183955	openSUSE 15 Security Update : chromium (openSUSE-SU-2023:0325-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
183807	Google Chrome < 118.0.5993.117 Vulnerability	Nessus	MacOS X Local Security Checks	high
183806	Google Chrome < 118.0.5993.117 Vulnerability	Nessus	Windows	high

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