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🛡️ CVE-2024-2887 on Debian — chromium

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
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CVSS Score
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Description

Type Confusion in WebAssembly in Google Chrome prior to 123.0.6312.86 allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2024-2887 as tracked by Debian, for the package chromium. The fix is available in version 123.0.6312.86-1; earlier versions remain affected.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

  • Attack vector: Local — a local account, shell or session on the host is needed.
  • Attack complexity: High — the attacker first has to win a race, learn a secret or otherwise prepare the target.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: Required — someone has to click, open or visit something.
  • Scope: Changed — a successful attack reaches components beyond the vulnerable one.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

DEBIAN-CVE-2024-2887 is classified as CWE-843: Type Confusion. A resource is accessed as one type while actually being another, so the interpretation of its memory is wrong.

Affected software

DEBIAN-CVE-2024-2887 is recorded against 1 package.

  • chromium (fixed in 123.0.6312.86-1)

Timeline and source

Published on 26 March 2024 and last revised on 4 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

security-tracker.debian.org (Advisory)

Other advisories for this package

chromium has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-843: Type Confusion) in other software:

CVE-2024-2887 on other distributions

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

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2024-03-26
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-08-04
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
chromium — 123.0.6312.86-1

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