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Google Chrome V8 Use-After-Free Vulnerability Allowing Heap Corruption

Vulnerability

A use-after-free vulnerability has been identified in the V8 JavaScript engine used by Google Chrome. This issue affects Chrome versions prior to 140.0.7339.80. The vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to exploit heap corruption by sending a crafted HTML page.

Impact

Exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to heap corruption, a common precursor to memory corruption vulnerabilities that can be exploited to execute arbitrary code.

Remediation

Users can update to Google Chrome version 140.0.7339.80 or later to address this vulnerability.

Added: Sep 3, 2025, 5:27 PM
Updated: Sep 3, 2025, 5:27 PM

Vulnerability Rating

Custom Algorithm
spread
8.4
impact
0.6
exploitability
4.4
remediation
7.7
relevance
0.4
threat
0.0
urgency
2.9
incentive
0.8

Our algorithm analyzes dozens of metrics to generate these 8 key vulnerability categories, which are then combined to calculate the overall risk score.