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CVE-2025-0438: 
vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

CVE-2025-0438 is a high-severity stack buffer overflow vulnerability discovered in the Tracing component of Google Chrome versions prior to 132.0.6834.83. The vulnerability was reported by Han Zheng from HexHive on December 15, 2024 (Chrome Release).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as a stack-based buffer overflow (CWE-121) that could lead to stack corruption. The vulnerability has 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 (NVD).

Impact

If successfully exploited, this vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to potentially achieve stack corruption through a specially crafted HTML page, potentially leading to code execution with high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the affected system (NVD, Palo Alto).

Mitigation and workarounds

Google has addressed this vulnerability in Chrome version 132.0.6834.83 and later. Users are advised to update their Chrome browsers to the latest version to mitigate this security risk (Chrome Release).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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