CVE-2024-7981
vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

CVE-2024-7981 is a low-severity vulnerability discovered in Google Chrome's Views implementation. The vulnerability, which affects versions prior to 128.0.6613.84, allows remote attackers to perform UI spoofing through a specially crafted HTML page (Chrome Release, NVD).

Technical details

The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 4.3 (Medium) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/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 is limited to integrity, with no effect on confidentiality or availability (NVD).

Impact

The vulnerability allows attackers to perform UI spoofing attacks, which could potentially mislead users through manipulated interface elements. The security severity has been rated as Low by the Chromium security team (Chrome Release).

Exploitability

The vulnerability requires user interaction and a crafted HTML page for exploitation. There are no reports of this vulnerability being exploited in the wild (Chrome Release).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been fixed in Google Chrome version 128.0.6613.84. Users are advised to update their Chrome browsers to this version or later to mitigate the risk (Chrome Release).

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