CVE-2023-5217
Google Chromium libvpx Heap Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
- Published
- Sep 28, 2023
- Updated
- Oct 21, 2025
- Assigning CNA
- Chrome
- Evidence observed
- Oct 2, 2023
Primary CVSS
nvd · CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HModerate · next 30 days
- Percentile
- 98.9%
- Model date
- Sep 21, 2026
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CISA Known Exploited
This CVE appears in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.
Summary
Heap buffer overflow in vp8 encoding in libvpx in Google Chrome prior to 117.0.5938.132 and libvpx 1.13.1 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)
Sources
1A PoC to trigger CVE-2023-5217 from the Browser WebCodecs or MediaRecorder interface.
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