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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2025-5068
CVE-2025-5068:
vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
Use after free vulnerability (CVE-2025-5068) was discovered in Blink, the rendering engine of Google Chrome versions prior to 137.0.7151.68. The vulnerability was reported by a researcher known as Walkman on April 7, 2025, and was assigned a medium severity rating. Google awarded a $1,000 bounty for the disclosure (Chrome Release, NVD).
Technical details
The vulnerability is classified as a Use After Free (CWE-416) issue in the Blink component. 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. This indicates that the vulnerability can be exploited remotely, requires low attack complexity, needs no privileges, but does require user interaction (NVD).
Impact
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. Use-after-free bugs can lead to heap corruption, data leaks, or potentially remote code execution, depending on the context (Security Online).
Mitigation and workarounds
Google has released a patch in Chrome version 137.0.7151.68 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).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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