Heap buffer overflow in libwebp in Google Chrome prior to 116.0.5845.187 and libwebp 1.3.2 allowed a remote attacker to perform an out of bounds memory write via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Critical)
CVE-2023-4863
Score elevated to 9.0 because this CVE is listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2023-09-13), indicating real-world exploitation has been confirmed by US federal agencies. NVD baseline CVSS 8.8 retained for reference. Confidence: HIGH.
- Actively exploited in the wild (CISA-KEV)
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 8.8
- Vendor severity
- CRITICALper Google (Chromium)Vendor's own band, not a CVSS rating — advisory text: (Chromium security severity: Critical)
- EG Score
- 9.0CRITICALhigh confidence
- EG Risk
- 81EG Risk 81/100CISA SSVC
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity90% × 45%Exploitation100% × 40%Automatability0% × 15%CISA SSVC: Track at low, Attend at medium and Act at high mission impact.Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low, sooner than that at medium and as soon as possible at high mission impact. - EPSS PROB
- 100%
- EPSS %ILE
- 99th
- KEV
- ⚠ Exploited
CISA SSVCTrack at low, Attend at medium and Act at high mission impact.
A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low, sooner than that at medium and as soon as possible at high mission impact.
Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it: high means the affected system is essential to your organisation's mission, or its compromise could cause irreversible harm to people. CISA's decision table
Published
September 12, 2023
Last Modified
June 17, 2026
Advisory Details (10)
Auto-updated Jun 1, 2026oss-security - Re: CVE-2023-4863: libwebp: Heap buffer overflow in WebP Codec
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/09/26/7oss-security - Re: CVE-2023-4863: libwebp: Heap buffer overflow in WebP Codec
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/09/26/1oss-security - Re: CVE-2023-4863: libwebp: Heap buffer overflow in WebP Codec
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/09/22/8oss-security - Re: CVE-2023-4863: libwebp: Heap buffer overflow in WebP Codec
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/09/22/7oss-security - Re: CVE-2023-4863: libwebp: Heap buffer overflow in WebP Codec
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/09/22/6oss-security - Re: CVE-2023-4863: libwebp: Heap buffer overflow in WebP Codec
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/09/22/5oss-security - Re: CVE-2023-4863: libwebp: Heap buffer overflow in WebP Codec
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/09/22/4oss-security - Re: CVE-2023-4863: libwebp: Heap buffer overflow in WebP Codec
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/09/22/3oss-security - Re: CVE-2023-4863: libwebp: Heap buffer overflow in WebP Codec
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/09/22/1oss-security - CVE-2023-4863: libwebp: Heap buffer overflow in WebP Codec
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/09/21/4Vendor Advisories for CVE-2023-4863(2)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Patch Availability(29)
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Affected Packages
(42 across 20 ecosystems)
NuGet(7)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| magick.net-q16-anycpu | 10.0.0 ... 9.1.2 (184 versions) |
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| magick.net-q16-hdri-anycpu | 10.0.0 ... 9.1.2 (181 versions) |
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| magick.net-q16-x64 | 10.0.0 ... 9.1.2 (200 versions) |
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| magick.net-q8-anycpu | 10.0.0 ... 9.1.2 (184 versions) |
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| magick.net-q8-openmp-x64 | 10.0.0 ... 9.1.2 (81 versions) |
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| magick.net-q8-x64 | 10.0.0 ... 9.1.2 (200 versions) |
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| SkiaSharp | 2.80.0 ... 2.88.5 (11 versions) |
| — |
Debian:11(4)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| chromium | 100.0.4896.127-1 ... 99.0.4844.84-1~deb11u1 (142 versions) |
| — |
| firefox-esr | 102.1.0esr-1 ... 91.9.1esr-1~deb9u1 (110 versions) |
| — |
| libwebp | 0.6.1-2.1, 0.6.1-2.1+deb11u1 |
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| thunderbird | 1:102.0.1-1 ... 1:91.9.0-1~deb9u1 (136 versions) |
| — |
Debian:12(4)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| chromium | 113.0.5672.126-1 ... 117.0.5938.62-1~deb12u1 (39 versions) |
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| firefox-esr | 102.11.0esr-1 ... 102.15.1esr-1~deb11u1 (17 versions) |
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| libwebp | 1.2.4-0.2 |
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| thunderbird | 1:102.11.0-1 ... 1:102.15.1-1~deb11u1 (21 versions) |
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Debian:13(4)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
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| chromium | — |
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| firefox-esr | — |
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| libwebp | — |
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| thunderbird | — |
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Debian:14(4)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
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| chromium | — |
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| firefox-esr | — |
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| libwebp | — |
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| thunderbird | — |
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crates.io(3)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
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| libwebp-sys | — |
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| libwebp-sys2 | — |
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| webp | — |
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Debian:10(3)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| firefox-esr | 102.1.0esr-1 ... 91.9.1esr-1~deb9u1 (212 versions) |
| — |
| libwebp | 0.6.1-2, 0.6.1-2+deb10u1, 0.6.1-2+deb10u2 |
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| thunderbird | 1:102.0.1-1 ... 1:91.9.0-1~deb9u1 (259 versions) |
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Alpine:v3.15(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| libwebp | — |
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Alpine:v3.16(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| libwebp | — |
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Alpine:v3.17(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| libwebp | — |
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Alpine:v3.18(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| libwebp | — |
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Alpine:v3.19(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
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| libwebp | — |
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Alpine:v3.20(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
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| libwebp | — |
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Alpine:v3.21(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| libwebp | — |
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Alpine:v3.22(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
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| libwebp | — |
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Alpine:v3.23(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| libwebp | — |
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Alpine:v3.24(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| libwebp | — |
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Go(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| github.com/chai2010/webp | — |
| — |
npm(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| electron | — |
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PyPI(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| pillow | 1.0 ... 9.5.0 (93 versions) |
| — |
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Additional Vendor Advisories
(24)
Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.
- Red HatRHBA-2023:5988IMPORTANT2023-09-11
RHBA-2023:5988 — Important
- Red HatRHBA-2023:6004IMPORTANT2023-09-11
RHBA-2023:6004 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2023:5183IMPORTANT2023-09-11
RHSA-2023:5183 — Important
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- Red HatRHSA-2023:5187IMPORTANT2023-09-11
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- Red HatRHSA-2023:5188IMPORTANT2023-09-11
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- Red HatRHSA-2023:5189IMPORTANT2023-09-11
RHSA-2023:5189 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2023:5190IMPORTANT2023-09-11
RHSA-2023:5190 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2023:5191IMPORTANT2023-09-11
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- Red HatRHSA-2023:5192IMPORTANT2023-09-11
RHSA-2023:5192 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2023:5197IMPORTANT2023-09-11
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- Red HatRHSA-2023:5198IMPORTANT2023-09-11
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- Red HatRHSA-2023:5200IMPORTANT2023-09-11
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- Red HatRHSA-2023:5201IMPORTANT2023-09-11
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- Red HatRHSA-2023:5202IMPORTANT2023-09-11
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- Red HatRHSA-2023:5204IMPORTANT2023-09-11
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- Red HatRHSA-2023:5205IMPORTANT2023-09-11
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- Red HatRHSA-2023:5214IMPORTANT2023-09-11
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- Red HatRHSA-2023:5222IMPORTANT2023-09-11
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- Red HatRHSA-2023:5223IMPORTANT2023-09-11
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- Red HatRHSA-2023:5224IMPORTANT2023-09-11
RHSA-2023:5224 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2023:5236IMPORTANT2023-09-11
RHSA-2023:5236 — Important
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 44× in last 7d / 207× in last 30d)
Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.
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Publicly available exploits
(10 references)Working exploit code is in the public domain (10 GitHub PoCs). Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly — public PoCs typically lead to mass-exploitation within 24-72 hours.
- Open source ↗GitHub PoCShcesama/cve-2023-4863-analysisFirst seen Jun 3, 2026
- GitHub PoCcaoweiquan322/NotEnoughFirst seen Dec 19, 2023
This tool calculates tricky canonical huffman histogram for CVE-2023-4863.
Open source ↗ - Open source ↗GitHub PoCLiveOverflow/webp-CVE-2023-4863First seen Dec 18, 2023
- Open source ↗GitHub PoChuiwen-yayaya/CVE-2023-4863First seen Nov 11, 2023
- GitHub PoCmurphysecurity/libwebp-checkerFirst seen Oct 5, 2023
A tool for finding vulnerable libwebp(CVE-2023-4863)
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCGTGalaxi/ElectronVulnerableVersionFirst seen Sep 30, 2023
Find Electron Apps Vulnerable to CVE-2023-4863 / CVE-2023-5129
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCOITApps/Find-VulnerableElectronVersionFirst seen Sep 29, 2023
Scans an executable and determines if it was wrapped in an Electron version vulnerable to the Chromium vulnerability CVE-2023-4863/ CVE-2023-5129
Open source ↗ - Open source ↗GitHub PoCbbaranoff/CVE-2023-4863First seen Sep 25, 2023
- GitHub PoCtalbeerysec/BAD-WEBP-CVE-2023-4863First seen Sep 25, 2023
BAD-WEBP-CVE-2023-4863
Open source ↗ - Open source ↗GitHub PoCmistymntncop/CVE-2023-4863First seen Sep 21, 2023
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