How severe is CVE-2018-17463?

CVE-2018-17463 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 8.8 (HIGH). EPSS estimates a 84.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2018-17463: Google Chromium V8 Remote Code Execution

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

Google Chromium V8 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV

2022-06-08

Remediation due

2022-06-22

Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.

CISA notes
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-17463

Description

Incorrect side effect annotation in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 70.0.3538.64 allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code inside a sandbox via a crafted HTML page.

Severity

CVSS 3.1 · CISA8.8 HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC · CISA-ADP

Exploitationactive

Automatableno

Technical impacttotal

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
Google	Chrome	unspecified to <70.0.3538.64

References

7 Links

Vendor advisories

Vulnerability databases

105666

Other references

Record Details

Published

2018-11-14

Last updated

2025-10-21

Assigner (CNA)

Chrome

Credited to

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