CVE-2023-39928
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 8.8 High
- Published
- Oct 6, 2023
- Updated
- Nov 4, 2025
- Reserved
- Aug 14, 2023
Description
A use-after-free vulnerability exists in the MediaRecorder API of Webkit WebKitGTK 2.40.5. A specially crafted web page can abuse this vulnerability to cause memory corruption and potentially arbitrary code execution. A user would need to to visit a malicious webpage to trigger this vulnerability.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 8.8 High | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H | talos |
Weaknesses
- CWE-416 Use After Free
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
WebkitWebkit |
|
References
- https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2023-1831
- https://webkitgtk.org/security/WSA-2023-0009.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5527
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4EEMDC5TQAANFH5D77QM34ZTUKXPFGVL/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-33
- https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2023-1831
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