CVE-2023-4362

Publication date 15 August 2023

Last updated 26 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

Heap buffer overflow in Mojom IDL in Google Chrome prior to 116.0.5845.96 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process and gained control of a WebUI process to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Medium)

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
chromium-browser	23.04 lunar	Not affected
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	20.04 LTS focal	Not in release
	18.04 LTS bionic	Ignored end of standard support
	16.04 LTS xenial	Ignored end of standard support
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored end of standard support

Notes

alexmurray

The Debian chromium source package is called chromium-browser in Ubuntu

mdeslaur

starting with Ubuntu 19.10, the chromium-browser package is just a script that installs the Chromium snap

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 8.8 · High

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	8.8 · High
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H