CVE-2023-3737
vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

CVE-2023-3737 is a security vulnerability discovered in Google Chrome's Notifications implementation prior to version 115.0.5790.98. The vulnerability was reported by Philipp Beer (TU Wien) on April 19, 2023, and was assigned a Medium severity rating (Chrome Release).

Technical details

The vulnerability is characterized as an inappropriate implementation in the Notifications component of Google Chrome. It has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 4.3 (Medium), with the following vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N. This indicates that the vulnerability is network-accessible, requires low attack complexity, needs no privileges, but does require user interaction (NVD).

Impact

When exploited, this vulnerability allows a remote attacker to spoof the contents of media notifications through a crafted HTML page. The impact is primarily limited to integrity, with no direct effect on confidentiality or availability (Chrome Release).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been patched in Chrome version 115.0.5790.98 and later. Users and administrators are advised to update to this version or later to mitigate the risk. The fix was released as part of Chrome's July 2023 security update (Chrome Release).

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