CVE-2024-10488: 
vulnerability analysis and mitigation

A high-severity use-after-free vulnerability in WebRTC was discovered in Google Chrome versions prior to 130.0.6723.92. The vulnerability, identified as CVE-2024-10488, was reported by security researcher Cassidy Kim (@cassidy6564) on October 18, 2024 (Chrome Release).

The vulnerability is classified as a use-after-free (CWE-416) issue specifically affecting the WebRTC component in Google Chrome. It received a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.8 (High), with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H, indicating that it can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity, requires no privileges but does need user interaction, and could potentially result in high impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability (NVD).

The vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption through a specially crafted HTML page, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution with the same privileges as the Chrome browser process (NVD).

Google has released a fix for this vulnerability in Chrome version 130.0.6723.92 for Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms. Users are advised to update their Chrome browsers to this version or later to mitigate the vulnerability (Chrome Release).