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CVE-2023-4863GHSA-J7HP-H8JX-5PPRA-299477569ASB-A-299477569PYSEC-2026-1794RUSTSEC-2023-0060RUSTSEC-2023-0061

Heap buffer overflow in libwebp in Google Chrome prior to 116.0.5845.187 and libwebp 1.3.2 allowed a remote attacker to perform an out of bo

Published
Last modified
published
Listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 116.0.5845.187, 1.3.2, 0.1.8, 0.9.3, 22.3.24, and 11 more
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

Summary

This vulnerability affects Google Chrome and the libwebp image-decoding library, which are used to process WebP images. An attacker could exploit it by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted web page, allowing them to write data outside the intended memory area and potentially run malicious code.

Summarized by anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5. Verify details against the original sources.

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Heap buffer overflow in libwebp in Google Chrome prior to 116.0.5845.187 and libwebp 1.3.2 allowed a remote attacker to perform an out of bounds memory write via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Critical)

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. Added to CISA KEV

    CISA has evidence of exploitation in the wild

  3. CISA remediation deadline

    Due date for US federal agencies to patch

  4. Record last updated
  5. EPSS reached 10%

    FIRST estimates at least a 10% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

  6. cve.now early warning

    CISA advisory reports Mitsubishi Electric industrial software vulnerabilities

Affected versions

  • Google Chrome

    From 116.0.5845.187 · fixed in 116.0.5845.187

  • Google libwebp

    From 1.3.2 · fixed in 1.3.2

  • libwebp-sys2crates.io

    fixed in 0.1.8

  • libwebp-syscrates.io

    fixed in 0.9.3

  • electronnpm

    From 22.0.0 · fixed in 22.3.24

  • electronnpm

    From 24.0.0 · fixed in 24.8.3

  • electronnpm

    From 25.0.0 · fixed in 25.8.1

  • electronnpm

    From 26.0.0 · fixed in 26.2.1

  • electronnpm

    From 27.0.0-beta.1 · fixed in 27.0.0-beta.2

  • SkiaSharpNuGet

    From 2.0.0 · fixed in 2.88.6

  • github.com/chai2010/webpGo

    From 1.1.2 · fixed in 1.4.0

  • pillowPyPI

    fixed in 10.0.1

  • webpcrates.io

    fixed in 0.2.6

  • magick.net-q16-anycpuNuGet

    fixed in 13.3.0

  • magick.net-q16-hdri-anycpuNuGet

    fixed in 13.3.0

  • magick.net-q16-x64NuGet

    fixed in 13.3.0

  • magick.net-q8-anycpuNuGet

    fixed in 13.3.0

  • magick.net-q8-openmp-x64NuGet

    fixed in 13.3.0

  • magick.net-q8-x64NuGet

    fixed in 13.3.0

  • github.com/chai2010/webpGo

    fixed in 0.0.0-20250406010349-76805d5a8860

  • github.com/chai2010/webpGo

    From 0.0.0 · fixed in 1.1.2-0.20250406010349-76805d5a8860

  • libwebp-sys2crates.io

    From 0.0.0-0 · fixed in 0.1.8

  • libwebp-syscrates.io

    From 0.0.0-0 · fixed in 0.9.3

References 25

chromereleases.googleblog.com

crbug.com

en.bandisoft.com

stackdiary.com

mozilla.org

GitHub · webmproject/libwebp

msrc.microsoft.com

security-tracker.debian.org

bugzilla.suse.com

news.ycombinator.com

bleepingcomputer.com

debian.org

lists.fedoraproject.org

lists.debian.org

security.gentoo.org

adamcaudill.com