CVE-2024-5836 Code injection in Chrome

What is CVE-2024-5836?

CVE-2024-5836 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 11 Jun 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

Inappropriate Implementation in DevTools in Google Chrome prior to 126.0.6478.54 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Chrome Extension. (Chromium security severity: High)

Weakness: CWE-474

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-5836?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Google Chrome.

How do I fix CVE-2024-5836?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2024-5836 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-5836 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 DEBIAN-CVE-2024-5836, GHSA-g9f9-c2xm-rwmm.