How severe is CVE-2023-2033?

CVE-2023-2033 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 8.8 (HIGH). EPSS estimates a 40.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2023-2033: Google Chromium V8 Type Confusion

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

Google Chromium V8 Type Confusion Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV

2023-04-17

Remediation due

2023-05-08

Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.

CISA notes
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2023/04/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_14.html; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-2033

Description

Type confusion in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 112.0.5615.121 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)

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	112.0.5615.121 to <112.0.5615.121

References

11 Links

Other references

Record Details

Published

2023-04-14

Last updated

2025-10-21

Assigner (CNA)

Chrome

Credited to

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