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CVE-2024-7971

CRITICAL9.6
CISA KEV

Published 2024-08-21 · Updated 2026-06-17 · Source chrome-cve-admin@google.com

Summary

CVE-2024-7971 is a critical-severity (CVSS 9.6) vulnerability in Google Chromium V8. CISA added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on August 26, 2024, which means exploitation in the wild has been confirmed; US federal agencies had to remediate it by September 16, 2024. CISA does not currently list it as used in ransomware campaigns. Google has 76 vulnerabilities in the KEV catalog, 0 of them linked to ransomware.

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Description

Type confusion in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 128.0.6613.84 allowed a remote attacker to exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)

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

CWE-843CWE-843CWE-843

CISA Known-Exploited Vulnerability

Product: Google — Chromium V8

Name: Google Chromium V8 Type Confusion Vulnerability

Date added: 2024-08-26 · Due: 2024-09-16

Required action: Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

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