8.8

CVE-2024-6990: google chrome Use of Uninitialized Variable

CVSS: 8.8v3.1HighAnalyzed
AliasesDEBIAN-CVE-2024-6990CGA-9vxr-w3q8-r549CGA-q5xr-63p9-rhhg
Published 01-08-2024Last modified 03-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-6990 is a high (CVSS 8.8) Use of Uninitialized Variable vulnerability in google chrome. EPSS estimates a 0.92% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 59.8% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
35/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
8.8/10
010
High · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.92%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 4 · Related 4
DSA-5735-1MGASA-2024-0321OPENSUSE-SU-2024:0254-2OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14272-1CGA-6P62-JXC8-FJ62CGA-J22J-W6JF-RC23

Timeline

  1. 01-08-2024
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 03-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Uninitialized Use in Dawn in Google Chrome on Android prior to 127.0.6533.88 allowed a remote attacker to potentially perform out of bounds memory access via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Critical)

CVSS metrics

5 scores · 5 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.92%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

60%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.92% on 20-09-2026

20-09-202620-10-2026
EPSS score
0.92%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Chainguard1 product
  • chromium< 127.0.6533.88-r0
Debian1 product
  • chromium< 127.0.6533.88-1~deb12u1 | < 127.0.6533.88-1
Google1 product
  • chrome≥ 127.0.6533.88, < 127.0.6533.88 | < 127.0.6533.88
Wolfi1 product
  • chromium< 127.0.6533.88-r0

4 vendors · 4 products

References

3 links