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CVE-2023-3740Insufficient validation of untrusted input in Themes in Google Chrome prior to 115.0.5790.98 allowed a remote attacker to potentially…
- 4.3MediumCVSS base score
- 0.55%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 53% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Insufficient validation of untrusted input in Themes in Google Chrome prior to 115.0.5790.98 allowed a remote attacker to potentially serve malicious content to a user via a crafted background URL. (Chromium security severity: Low)
Timeline
ID reserved
By Chrome
- 14 days later
· 14 days later
Published
- 19 months later
· 19 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium4.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.55% · top 53% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Affected products
References
References4
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2023/07/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://crbug.com/1405223 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/PQKT7EGDD2P3L7S3NXEDDRCPK4NNZNWJ/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-34 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2023-44375 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2023-3740)Record last updated .