🛡️ CVE-2023-5473 — chrome

🟡 CVSS 6.3 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-416 NVD
6.3
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Use after free in Cast in Google Chrome prior to 118.0.5993.70 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Low)

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity low, availability low.

Weakness class

CVE-2023-5473 is classified as CWE-416: Use After Free. Memory is used after being released, so its contents may already belong to something else.

Affected software

CVE-2023-5473 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • chrome (fixed in 118.0.5993.70)
  • debian-linux

Timeline and source

Published on 11 October 2023 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

chromereleases.googleblog.com
crbug.com
security.gentoo.org
security.gentoo.org
security.gentoo.org
www.debian.org
chromereleases.googleblog.com
crbug.com
security.gentoo.org
security.gentoo.org
security.gentoo.org
www.debian.org

CVE-2023-5473 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 6.3
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CWE CWE-416
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-10-11
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
chrome 118.0.5993.70
debian-linux

References

Permissions Required https://crbug.com/1484000
Permissions Required https://crbug.com/1484000

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