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CVE-2023-2136
· EUVD no mirror located
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Verified 2026-08-04
Google Chromium Skia vulnerability
Integer overflow in Chromium Skia allows a compromised renderer process to escape the sandbox via crafted HTML, potentially enabling full system compromise.
Verdict
Today item — known-exploited.
A remote attacker who has already compromised the renderer process can exploit this integer overflow to break out of the sandbox. This escalates a renderer compromise into arbitrary code execution with browser privileges.
CISA KEV Yes · 2023-04-214EPSS 0.05739 (verify live)5CVSS 9.6 (CISA)3CISA SSVC Exploitation: active · Automatable: no · Impact: total3
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Is it exploitable?
— the evidence, ranked above the scoreReported exploitation
7 independent public reports of in-the-wild exploitation are cataloged.Distinct reporting sources (vendor, incident response, government); open them for the underlying claims.
Exploited in the wild
Listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2023-04-21).
Probability (EPSS)
EPSS 0.05739 — modeled likelihood of exploitation activity.EPSS is a daily-changing model output — open the source for today's value.
Severity / affected
CVSS 9.6 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H) · Affected: Google, Chromium Skia. Confirm exact fixed builds in the vendor advisory.CVSS — CISA-assigned via the ADP container (CVE.org), version 3.1; the CNA left no metrics, so CISA's own score is used ahead of NVD.
Weakness (CWE)
Mapped to CWE-190 Integer Overflow — weakness family: Memory safety.CWE assignment from the public NVD record (may be stale); the weakness class drives how the flaw is exploited.
CISA SSVC (triage disposition)
Exploitation: active · Automatable: no · Technical Impact: totalCISA's own stakeholder-specific triage inputs, published in the CVE record (CISA Coordinator role). NOTE: this is CISA's three decision points; the final Act/Attend/Track decision also requires a Mission & Well-being input not published here, so no overall decision is asserted.
Currency of the record
CISA added this to its KEV catalog 2 days after the CVE record was published.KEV lag = CISA-KEV dateAdded − CVE.org datePublished; a floor on how long the known-exploited flaw sat in the public record before the federal catalog listed it. Severity/weakness here is CNA- or CISA-assigned (current at disclosure), independent of NVD's analysis backlog.
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Who’s exploiting it?
— attribution turns risk into urgencyAttribution not established
No confirmed (advisory-backed) threat-actor attribution is established for this record. Absence of a named actor is not absence of compromise — see Coverage & confidence.
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Why it matters
— the attack path, told twice: adversary, then board1
Front door — unauthenticated access narrative 1
Attacker
I craft malicious HTML that triggers an integer overflow in Skia's rendering logic.
Business
User visits a malicious webpage, triggering the vulnerability in their browser renderer.
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Keys to the kingdom — privilege/identity takeover narrative 2
Attacker
I exploit the overflow to corrupt memory and bypass sandbox restrictions.
Business
The browser's security isolation layer is defeated, exposing the host system.
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Lateral reach — past segmentation narrative 3
Attacker
I execute arbitrary code outside the sandbox with the privileges of the browser process.
Business
Attacker gains access to user data, system resources, and can pivot to further compromise the device.
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What to do
— defensible action- Remediate per the vendor advisory — confirm the fixed build for your version and verify exposure.1
Say it to the boardA vulnerability with this evidence profile is a defensible budget line, not a backlog ticket — fund the change against the proof above.
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