Vulnerability would allow a remote attacker to perform a sandbox escape via a crafted HTML page.
Google has said that it is aware that an exploit for CVE-2024-4671 exists in the wild, and issued a fix for the zero-day vulnerability.
The vulnerability, rated as high, impacts Google Chrome for Windows, Mac, and Linux and relates to a use after free condition in Visuals.
An advisory from MITRE explained that exploiting the vulnerability would allow a remote attacker - who had compromised the renderer process - to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted HTML page.
This is the fifth zero-day fix of 2024 by Google Chrome, with two fixes coming in March.
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