CVE-2025-5419

Published Jun 3, 2025

Last updated 2 days ago

Google Chrome V8

Overview

AI description

Automated description summarized from trusted sources.

CVE-2025-5419 is an out-of-bounds read and write vulnerability found in the V8 JavaScript and WebAssembly engine of Google Chrome. Specifically, it affects Google Chrome versions prior to 137.0.7151.68. According to the NIST's National Vulnerability Database (NVD), this vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption through a crafted HTML page. The vulnerability was reported to Google on May 27, 2025, by Clement Lecigne and Benoît Sevens of Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG). Google has confirmed that an exploit for CVE-2025-5419 exists in the wild and has released a security update to address the issue. A configuration change was pushed to the Stable version of Chrome across all platforms on May 28, 2025, to mitigate the bug.

Description: Out of bounds read and write in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 137.0.7151.68 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)
Source: chrome-cve-admin@google.com
NVD status: Analyzed

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type: Secondary
Base score: 8.8
Impact score: 5.9
Exploitability score: 2.8
Vector string: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Severity: HIGH

Known exploits

Data from CISA

Vulnerability name: Google Chromium V8 Out-of-Bounds Read and Write Vulnerability
Exploit added on: Jun 5, 2025
Exploit action due: Jun 26, 2025
Required action: Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

Weaknesses

134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0: CWE-125

Hype score is a measure of social media activity compared against trending CVEs from the past 12 months. Max score 100.

Hype score: 17

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "31E19D83-F49F-4B1B-8E53-D790037695D3",
            "versionEndExcluding": "137.0.7151.68"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References

Sources include official advisories and independent security research.