CVE-2024-7971

CRITICALNVD 9.69.6—
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

Score elevated to 9.6 because this CVE is listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2024-08-26), indicating real-world exploitation has been confirmed by US federal agencies. NVD baseline CVSS 9.6 retained for reference. Confidence: HIGH.

Triggered by: CISA KEV (actively exploited)
Sources: cisa_kev, epss, ghsa, nvd
Trending — 5 sources updated this weekExploited in the wild
9.6
EchelonGraph verdictPatch nowTreat as an emergency — this is being exploited.
  • Actively exploited in the wild (CISA-KEV)
CISA-KEV: ExploitedEPSS: 19%CVSS: 9.6Exploit: NoneExposed: 0

No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.

Type confusion in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 128.0.6613.84 allowed a remote attacker to exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)

CVSS v3
9.6
EG Score
9.6(high)
EG Risk
83(Attend)
EG Risk 83/100SSVC: Attend

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 computed
Severity96% × 45%
Exploitation100% × 40%
Automatability0% × 15%
Action: Remediate soon — notable exploitation risk.
EPSS
97.1%
KEV
⚠ Exploited

Published

August 21, 2024

Last Modified

October 24, 2025

Advisory Details (4)

Auto-updated Jun 1, 2026
⚠️ Active exploitation confirmed. Patch available. Sources: cisa.
cisa Patch Available🔴 Active Exploitation

Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog | CISA

Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog | CISA. Listed in CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2024-7971
generic

North Korean threat actor Citrine Sleet exploiting Chromium zero-day | Microsoft Security Blog

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2024/08/30/north-korean-threat-actor-citrine-sleet-exploiting-chromium-zero-day/
generic

Chromium

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/360700873
generic🔴 Active Exploitation

Chrome Releases: Stable Channel Update for Desktop

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2024/08/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_21.html

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

All Vendor Advisories

(1)

Every vendor that published an advisory referencing this CVE — pulled from our cve_vendor_advisories aggregation. Click any row for the vendor's original advisory page.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 86× in last 7d / 385× 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.

Showing the most recent 100 of 708 total refreshes for this CVE.

  1. 2026-07-23 14:17 UTCEPSS rescore
  2. 2026-07-23 02:46 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-07-22 22:22 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-07-22 22:22 UTCVendor advisory
  5. 2026-07-22 22:22 UTCGHSA enrichment
  6. 2026-07-22 19:40 UTCCISA KEV update
  7. 2026-07-22 18:12 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-07-22 18:12 UTCGHSA enrichment
  9. 2026-07-22 14:07 UTCEPSS rescore
  10. 2026-07-22 14:07 UTCEPSS rescore
  11. 2026-07-22 14:04 UTCVendor advisory
  12. 2026-07-22 14:04 UTCGHSA enrichment
  13. 2026-07-22 09:57 UTCVendor advisory
  14. 2026-07-22 09:57 UTCGHSA enrichment
  15. 2026-07-22 05:49 UTCVendor advisory
  16. 2026-07-22 05:49 UTCGHSA enrichment
  17. 2026-07-22 01:41 UTCVendor advisory
  18. 2026-07-22 01:41 UTCGHSA enrichment
  19. 2026-07-21 21:32 UTCVendor advisory
  20. 2026-07-21 21:31 UTCGHSA enrichment
  21. 2026-07-21 17:22 UTCEG score recompute
  22. 2026-07-21 17:22 UTCVendor advisory
  23. 2026-07-21 17:21 UTCGHSA enrichment
  24. 2026-07-21 15:24 UTCEPSS rescore
  25. 2026-07-21 14:37 UTCCISA KEV update
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  1. 2026-07-21 13:14 UTCVendor advisory
  2. 2026-07-21 13:14 UTCGHSA enrichment
  3. 2026-07-21 09:06 UTCVendor advisory
  4. 2026-07-21 09:06 UTCGHSA enrichment
  5. 2026-07-21 04:58 UTCVendor advisory
  6. 2026-07-21 04:58 UTCGHSA enrichment
  7. 2026-07-21 00:50 UTCVendor advisory
  8. 2026-07-21 00:50 UTCGHSA enrichment
  9. 2026-07-20 20:43 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-07-20 20:43 UTCVendor advisory
  11. 2026-07-20 20:43 UTCGHSA enrichment
  12. 2026-07-20 17:07 UTCEPSS rescore
  13. 2026-07-20 16:35 UTCGHSA enrichment
  14. 2026-07-20 12:28 UTCGHSA enrichment
  15. 2026-07-20 08:20 UTCVendor advisory
  16. 2026-07-20 08:20 UTCGHSA enrichment
  17. 2026-07-20 04:12 UTCVendor advisory
  18. 2026-07-20 04:12 UTCGHSA enrichment
  19. 2026-07-20 00:05 UTCVendor advisory
  20. 2026-07-20 00:05 UTCGHSA enrichment
  21. 2026-07-19 19:57 UTCVendor advisory
  22. 2026-07-19 19:57 UTCGHSA enrichment
  23. 2026-07-19 15:49 UTCEG score recompute
  24. 2026-07-19 15:49 UTCVendor advisory
  25. 2026-07-19 15:49 UTCGHSA enrichment
  26. 2026-07-19 14:30 UTCEPSS rescore
  27. 2026-07-19 11:42 UTCVendor advisory
  28. 2026-07-19 11:42 UTCGHSA enrichment
  29. 2026-07-19 07:34 UTCVendor advisory
  30. 2026-07-19 07:34 UTCGHSA enrichment
  31. 2026-07-19 03:26 UTCVendor advisory
  32. 2026-07-19 03:26 UTCGHSA enrichment
  33. 2026-07-18 23:18 UTCGHSA enrichment
  34. 2026-07-18 19:10 UTCVendor advisory
  35. 2026-07-18 19:10 UTCGHSA enrichment
  36. 2026-07-18 15:02 UTCVendor advisory
  37. 2026-07-18 15:02 UTCGHSA enrichment
  38. 2026-07-18 10:55 UTCEG score recompute
  39. 2026-07-18 10:55 UTCVendor advisory
  40. 2026-07-18 10:55 UTCGHSA enrichment
  41. 2026-07-18 10:03 UTCEPSS rescore
  42. 2026-07-18 10:03 UTCEPSS rescore
  43. 2026-07-18 06:47 UTCVendor advisory
  44. 2026-07-18 06:47 UTCGHSA enrichment
  45. 2026-07-18 02:39 UTCVendor advisory
  46. 2026-07-18 02:39 UTCGHSA enrichment
  47. 2026-07-17 22:31 UTCVendor advisory
  48. 2026-07-17 22:31 UTCGHSA enrichment
  49. 2026-07-17 18:23 UTCVendor advisory
  50. 2026-07-17 18:23 UTCGHSA enrichment
  51. 2026-07-17 14:15 UTCVendor advisory
  52. 2026-07-17 14:15 UTCGHSA enrichment
  53. 2026-07-17 10:07 UTCEG score recompute
  54. 2026-07-17 10:07 UTCVendor advisory
  55. 2026-07-17 10:07 UTCGHSA enrichment
  56. 2026-07-17 05:59 UTCVendor advisory
  57. 2026-07-17 05:59 UTCGHSA enrichment
  58. 2026-07-17 01:51 UTCVendor advisory
  59. 2026-07-17 01:51 UTCGHSA enrichment
  60. 2026-07-16 21:43 UTCVendor advisory
  61. 2026-07-16 21:43 UTCGHSA enrichment
  62. 2026-07-16 17:36 UTCVendor advisory
  63. 2026-07-16 17:36 UTCGHSA enrichment
  64. 2026-07-16 17:04 UTCCISA KEV update
  65. 2026-07-16 17:02 UTCEPSS rescore
  66. 2026-07-16 17:02 UTCEPSS rescore
  67. 2026-07-16 13:28 UTCGHSA enrichment
  68. 2026-07-16 09:21 UTCVendor advisory
  69. 2026-07-16 09:21 UTCGHSA enrichment
  70. 2026-07-16 05:13 UTCVendor advisory
  71. 2026-07-16 05:13 UTCGHSA enrichment
  72. 2026-07-16 01:06 UTCVendor advisory
  73. 2026-07-16 01:06 UTCGHSA enrichment
  74. 2026-07-15 20:58 UTCVendor advisory
  75. 2026-07-15 20:58 UTCGHSA enrichment

Publicly available exploits

(1 reference)

Working exploit code is in the public domain (1 GitHub PoC). Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly — public PoCs typically lead to mass-exploitation within 24-72 hours.

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Frequently asked(6)

What is CVE-2024-7971?
CVE-2024-7971 is a critical vulnerability published on August 21, 2024. Type confusion in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 128.0.6613.84 allowed a remote attacker to exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)
When was CVE-2024-7971 disclosed?
CVE-2024-7971 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on August 21, 2024, with the most recent update on October 24, 2025. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2024-7971 actively exploited?
Yes. CISA added CVE-2024-7971 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on August 26, 2024, affecting Google Chromium V8. KEV listing indicates confirmed exploitation in the wild; this CVE warrants immediate patching attention.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2024-7971?
CVE-2024-7971 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.6 (NVD).
Which products are affected by CVE-2024-7971?
CVE-2024-7971 affects Google Chromium V8. The full affected-products list, including version ranges and fixed versions, is shown in the Affected Packages section of this page.
How do I remediate CVE-2024-7971?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2024-7971, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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