CVE-2025-5283 Use after free in Chrome
Medium 5.4
Published
Updated
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-5283 and fix it if it is affected.
What it is: CVE-2025-5283 is a medium-severity use after free vulnerability in Google Chrome, published on 27 May 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-5283 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Affected product: Google Chrome. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.
Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.
Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-5283/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-5283/index.md)
A remote attacker can exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page to potentially execute arbitrary code in Google Chrome.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2025-5283?
CVE-2025-5283 is a medium-severity use after free vulnerability in Google Chrome, published on 27 May 2025. 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
Use after free in libvpx in Google Chrome prior to 137.0.7151.55 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Medium)
Weakness: CWE-416
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-5283?
It affects 1 product.
Linux distribution packages (40)
libvpx AlmaLinux:10 | All versions | 1.14.1-3.el10_0 |
libvpx-devel AlmaLinux:10 | All versions | 1.14.1-3.el10_0 |
libvpx AlmaLinux:8 | All versions | 1.7.0-12.el8_10 |
libvpx-devel AlmaLinux:8 | All versions | 1.7.0-12.el8_10 |
libvpx AlmaLinux:9 | All versions | 1.9.0-9.el9_6 |
libvpx-devel AlmaLinux:9 | All versions | 1.9.0-9.el9_6 |
libvpx Red Hat:enterprise_linux:10.0 | All versions | 0:1.14.1-3.el10_0 |
libvpx-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:10.0 | All versions | 0:1.14.1-3.el10_0 |
libvpx-debugsource Red Hat:enterprise_linux:10.0 | All versions | 0:1.14.1-3.el10_0 |
libvpx-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:10.0 | All versions | 0:1.14.1-3.el10_0 |
libvpx-utils-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:10.0 | All versions | 0:1.14.1-3.el10_0 |
libvpx Red Hat:enterprise_linux:8::appstream | All versions | 0:1.7.0-12.el8_10 |
libvpx-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:8::appstream | All versions | 0:1.7.0-12.el8_10 |
libvpx-debugsource Red Hat:enterprise_linux:8::appstream | All versions | 0:1.7.0-12.el8_10 |
libvpx-utils-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:8::appstream | All versions | 0:1.7.0-12.el8_10 |
libvpx-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:8::crb | All versions | 0:1.7.0-12.el8_10 |
libvpx-debugsource Red Hat:enterprise_linux:8::crb | All versions | 0:1.7.0-12.el8_10 |
libvpx-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:8::crb | All versions | 0:1.7.0-12.el8_10 |
libvpx-utils-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:8::crb | All versions | 0:1.7.0-12.el8_10 |
libvpx Red Hat:enterprise_linux:9::appstream | All versions | 0:1.9.0-9.el9_6 |
libvpx-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:9::appstream | All versions | 0:1.9.0-9.el9_6 |
libvpx-debugsource Red Hat:enterprise_linux:9::appstream | All versions | 0:1.9.0-9.el9_6 |
libvpx-utils-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:9::appstream | All versions | 0:1.9.0-9.el9_6 |
libvpx-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:9::crb | All versions | 0:1.9.0-9.el9_6 |
libvpx-debugsource Red Hat:enterprise_linux:9::crb | All versions | 0:1.9.0-9.el9_6 |
libvpx-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:9::crb | All versions | 0:1.9.0-9.el9_6 |
libvpx-utils-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:9::crb | All versions | 0:1.9.0-9.el9_6 |
libvpx Red Hat:rhel_aus:8.2::appstream | All versions | 0:1.7.0-8.el8_2.1 |
libvpx-debuginfo Red Hat:rhel_aus:8.2::appstream | All versions | 0:1.7.0-8.el8_2.1 |
libvpx-debugsource Red Hat:rhel_aus:8.2::appstream | All versions | 0:1.7.0-8.el8_2.1 |
libvpx-utils-debuginfo Red Hat:rhel_aus:8.2::appstream | All versions | 0:1.7.0-8.el8_2.1 |
libvpx Red Hat:rhel_aus:8.4::appstream | All versions | 0:1.7.0-10.el8_4.1 |
libvpx-debuginfo Red Hat:rhel_aus:8.4::appstream | All versions | 0:1.7.0-10.el8_4.1 |
libvpx-debugsource Red Hat:rhel_aus:8.4::appstream | All versions | 0:1.7.0-10.el8_4.1 |
libvpx-utils-debuginfo Red Hat:rhel_aus:8.4::appstream | All versions | 0:1.7.0-10.el8_4.1 |
libvpx Red Hat:rhel_aus:8.6::appstream | All versions | 0:1.7.0-10.el8_6.1 |
libvpx-debuginfo Red Hat:rhel_aus:8.6::appstream | All versions | 0:1.7.0-10.el8_6.1 |
libvpx-debugsource Red Hat:rhel_aus:8.6::appstream | All versions | 0:1.7.0-10.el8_6.1 |
libvpx-utils-debuginfo Red Hat:rhel_aus:8.6::appstream | All versions | 0:1.7.0-10.el8_6.1 |
libvpx Red Hat:rhel_e4s:8.6::appstream | All versions | 0:1.7.0-10.el8_6.1 |
Products include Google Chrome.
How do I fix CVE-2025-5283?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Upgrade to the fixed version. These bugs are found with fuzzing and sanitisers and avoided by memory-safe languages. More about Use after free.
Is CVE-2025-5283 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-5283 in the wild and no public exploit code.
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Sources
Also known as ALSA-2025:9118, ALSA-2025:9119, ALSA-2025:9120, CLSA-2025-1756928514, CLSA-2026-1787214152, DEBIAN-CVE-2025-5283 and 25 more.