Microsoft security update for CVE-2024-7971 — Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based)
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products1
- Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based)
✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 1 update
1 row: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.
| KB article | Update | Fixed build |
|---|---|---|
| — | Security Update | 128.0.2739.42 |
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2024-7971
- EchelonGraph score
- 9.6 CRITICAL
- CISA KEV
- Listed since August 26, 2024
- Fix status
- A fix is available — apply it.
Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority
Type confusion in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 128.0.6613.84 allowed a remote attacker to exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)
Published by Chrome, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2024-7971, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).