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Vulnerability details: VCID-zs1y-mszx-ckcp
Vulnerability ID VCID-zs1y-mszx-ckcp
Aliases CVE-2024-6998
Summary Use after free in User Education in Google Chrome prior to 127.0.6533.72 allowed a remote attacker who convinced a user to engage in specific UI gestures to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Medium)
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 7.9
Risk 4.0
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (1)
CWE-416 Use After Free
System Score Found at
epss 0.00208 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2024-6998
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cvssv3.1 8.8 https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2024/07/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_23.html
ssvc Track https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2024/07/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_23.html
cvssv3.1 8.8 https://issues.chromium.org/issues/340098902
ssvc Track https://issues.chromium.org/issues/340098902
cvssv3.1 8.8 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-6998
Reference id Reference type URL
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2024-6998
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-6998
340098902 https://issues.chromium.org/issues/340098902
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVE-2024-6998 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-6998
stable-channel-update-for-desktop_23.html https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2024/07/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_23.html
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2024/07/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_23.html
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:N/T:T/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2024-08-06T17:36:49Z/ Found at https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2024/07/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_23.html
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://issues.chromium.org/issues/340098902
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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:N/T:T/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2024-08-06T17:36:49Z/ Found at https://issues.chromium.org/issues/340098902
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-6998
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.43433
EPSS Score 0.00208
Published At July 30, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2025-07-31T09:06:04.609641+00:00 Vulnrichment Import https://github.com/cisagov/vulnrichment/blob/develop/2024/6xxx/CVE-2024-6998.json 37.0.0