CVE-2024-3841 Cross-site scripting in Chrome

What is CVE-2024-3841?

CVE-2024-3841 is a high-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 17 Apr 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Insufficient data validation in Browser Switcher in Google Chrome prior to 124.0.6367.60 allowed a remote attacker to inject scripts or HTML into a privileged page via a malicious file. (Chromium security severity: Medium)

Weakness: CWE-79, CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-3841?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Google Chrome.

How do I fix CVE-2024-3841?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.

Is CVE-2024-3841 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-3841 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2019-5544 VMware ESXi and Horizon DaaS OpenSLP Heap-Based Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2024-4947 Google Chromium V8 Type Confusion Exploited Critical 9.6
• CVE-2024-4671 Google Chromium Visuals Use-After-Free Exploited Critical 9.6

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2024-3841, GHSA-gxh7-r3qj-jmff.