CVE-2023-3497 Denial of service in Chrome

What is CVE-2023-3497?

CVE-2023-3497 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Google Chrome, published on 3 Jul 2023. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Out of bounds read in Google Security Processor firmware in Google Chrome on Chrome OS prior to 114.0.5735.90 allowed a local attacker to perform denial of service via physical access to the device. (Chromium security severity: Medium)

Weakness: CWE-125

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-3497?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Chrome.

How do I fix CVE-2023-3497?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-3497 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2023-3497 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-3497 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-x288-jvvj-q522.