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CVE-2018-17480

High CVSS 8.8 Known exploited

Published 2018-12-11 · last changed 2026-06-17 · added to CISA KEV 2022-06-08

This one is being exploited in the wild.

CISA added CVE-2018-17480 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2022-06-08. Federal agencies are required to remediate it on a deadline. If you have affected machines, this is the class of finding that moves ahead of the rest of the queue.

The fix

We hold no Microsoft remediation data for CVE-2018-17480, which normally means it is not a Windows CVE. For non-Microsoft software the fix is the vendor's own updated release, and the affected versions are listed below.

What it is

Execution of user supplied Javascript during array deserialization leading to an out of bounds write in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 71.0.3578.80 allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code inside a sandbox via a crafted HTML page.

Sources

CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H