CVE-2023-5472

Summary

CVE-2023-5472 is a high severity vulnerability affecting Google Chrome versions prior to 118.0.5993.117. This issue involves a use-after-free condition in the Profiles module, which can be triggered through a specially crafted HTML page. An attacker who successfully exploits this vulnerability could potentially corrupt heap memory, resulting in unintended program behavior or crashes. Such incidents could lead to privacy disclosures, arbitrary code execution, or denial-of-service attacks. Users are strongly advised to update their Chrome browsers to the latest version to mitigate this risk.

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