CVE-2023-3738: 
vulnerability analysis and mitigation

CVE-2023-3738 is a security vulnerability affecting Google Chrome versions prior to 115.0.5790.98. The vulnerability involves an inappropriate implementation in the Autofill feature that allowed a remote attacker to obfuscate security UI through a crafted HTML page. This issue was discovered by Hafiizh and reported on April 18, 2023, with Google assigning it a Medium severity rating (Chrome Release).

The vulnerability 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, requires user interaction, has unchanged scope, and can impact integrity but not confidentiality or availability (NVD).

The vulnerability allows an attacker to manipulate the security user interface through specially crafted HTML pages, potentially misleading users through UI obfuscation. This could lead to users being deceived about the security status or context of their interactions with the browser's Autofill feature (Chrome Release).

Google has addressed this vulnerability in Chrome version 115.0.5790.98. Users and administrators are advised to update to this version or later to mitigate the risk. The fix has also been incorporated into various Linux distributions including Fedora and Gentoo through their respective security updates (Fedora Update, Gentoo Security).