critical Known exploitedREV. 01

CVE-2024-7971Google Chrome — type confusion in the V8 engine

A crafted web page corrupts the heap through a type confusion in V8, the JavaScript engine in Chrome before 128.0.6613.84. Microsoft reported a North Korean group using it as a zero-day, and every Chromium-based browser shares the engine.

YOUR NEXT MOVE

Update Chrome to 128.0.6613.84 or later, and patch the other Chromium browsers in the estate — Edge and Opera carry the same engine.

Read the risk

THE VITAL STATS
CVSS score
9.6/ 10
CVSS v3.1
EPSS probability
21%
Likelihood of exploitation
Attack complexity
Low
Conditions needed to exploit
Known exploited
Yes — CISA KEV
CVE published
2024-08-21
Added to KEV
2024-08-26
Exploit published
Yes
Confidence
high
Kill chain
execution
MITRE ATT&CK
T1203
Severity
critical

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

Attacker needsThe user must visit a page the attacker controls.

Fixed inGoogle Chrome >= 128.0.6613.84

Behind the card

3 REFERENCES
Field-level provenanceTRACE THE SOURCES +

Which source supports each field, when it was retrieved, and who extracted it.

FieldsSourceRetrievedExtractorConfidence
cvss, exploitation.attack_complexity, exploitation.exploit_available, references, published_atnvd.nist.gov2026-09-24scrty-crds-pipeline/0.1high
exploitation.known_exploited, exploitation.kev_addedcisa.gov2026-09-24scrty-crds-pipeline/0.1high
epssapi.first.org2026-09-24scrty-crds-pipeline/0.1high
title, summary, severity, remediation, mitre_attack, kill_chain, recommended_action, confidence, tags, exploitation.prerequisitesnvd.nist.gov2026-09-24claude-codehigh

Printing history

THE RECORD
  1. r1Initial base card

First printing. This card has not been reprinted since publication.

crds:cve-2024-7971 · CRDS 0.1 · Issued 2026-09-24