CVE-2024-1671
vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

CVE-2024-1671 is a security vulnerability discovered in Google Chrome's Site Isolation feature affecting versions prior to 122.0.6261.57. The vulnerability was reported by Harry Chen on January 3, 2024, and was officially disclosed on February 20, 2024. This medium-severity flaw allows remote attackers to bypass content security policy through a crafted HTML page (Chrome Release).

Technical details

The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 6.5 (Medium), with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N. This indicates that the vulnerability can be exploited remotely, requires low attack complexity, needs no privileges, but does require user interaction. The impact primarily affects integrity, with no impact on confidentiality or availability (NVD).

Impact

The vulnerability enables remote attackers to bypass the content security policy through specially crafted HTML pages. This could potentially allow attackers to execute unauthorized actions within the browser's security context, compromising the intended security boundaries (Chrome Release).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been patched in Chrome version 122.0.6261.57. Users are advised to update their Chrome browsers to this version or later to mitigate the risk. The fix has also been incorporated into various Chrome-based browsers and distributed to different Linux distributions including Fedora 38 and 39 (Fedora Update).

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