CVE-2018-17463

8.8

CVSS
High

PUBLISHED

Incorrect side effect annotation in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 70.0.3538.64 allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code inside a sandbox...

Exploited in the wild Remote Low complexity

Vendor: Google
Product: Chrome
Published: Nov 14, 2018
EPSS: —

Description

Incorrect side effect annotation in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 70.0.3538.64 allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code inside a sandbox via a crafted HTML page.

cisa metasploit

CVSS scores

CVSS v3.1 8.8 High

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2.0 6.8

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Exploitation status

Exploited in the wild

Recorded 2022-06-08 00:00:00 UTC · Source

SSVC decision points

Exploitation: active
Automatable: No
Technical impact: total

References

Known exploited vulnerability sources

Catalogues that list this CVE as a known exploited vulnerability.

Source	Added
CISA	Jun 08, 2022

Scanner integrations

Scanner	Reference	Detected
Metasploit	https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/multi/browser/chrome_object_create.rb	Apr 28, 2025

Potential proof of concepts

These PoCs are unverified and could contain malware. Use at your own risk.

chrome_object_create

metasploit · Created Unknown

Metasploit module for CVE-2018-17463

jhalon/CVE-2018-17463

github · Created 2022-12-28 02:42:59 UTC · 8 stars

Working Proof of Concept Exploit for CVE-2018-17463

kdmarti2/CVE-2018-17463

github · Created 2021-05-02 22:44:33 UTC · 1 stars

Completed a working exploit for CVE-2018-17463 for fun.

Vulnerability detail