Renderer code execution via WebAssembly type-index overflow
Published Mar 26, 2024 · Updated Mar 28, 2025
Type confusion in V8 WebAssembly in Google Chrome before 123.0.6312.86 allows remote attackers to execute code via a crafted HTML page. The type-section decoder counts recursive groups as single entries, allowing later heap-type indexes to exceed kV8MaxWasmTypes and alias reserved internal types. Loading attacker-controlled content is required; exploitation yields arbitrary read and write primitives and renderer code execution, still constrained by Chrome's process sandbox.
Summary
What happened
Type confusion in V8 WebAssembly in Google Chrome before 123.0.6312.86 allows remote attackers to execute code via a crafted HTML page. The type-section decoder counts recursive groups as single entries, allowing later heap-type indexes to exceed kV8MaxWasmTypes and alias reserved internal types. Loading attacker-controlled content is required; exploitation yields arbitrary read and write primitives and renderer code execution, still constrained by Chrome's process sandbox.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-2887
- Published
- Mar 26, 2024
- Updated
- Mar 28, 2025
- Vendor
- Google Cloud
- Product
- Google Chrome
- Classifications
- CWE-843, T1203
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Mar 21, 2024Exploitation reportedPwn2Own Vancouver 2024 browser exploit chain
- Mar 26, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Mar 28, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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Is a vulnerable build present?
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- Affected versionversion=0 <123.0.6312.86
- Affected versionversion=123.0.6312.86 <123.0.6312.86
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What is affected?
Attacks
What attackers are doing with it
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Weakness, pattern, technique
Public exploit references
- CVE-2024-2887 pwn.js browser exploitfunctional · unverified
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Reported exploitation
- Pwn2Own Vancouver 2024 browser exploit chainexploit chain
Technologies
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