{"id":53330,"date":"2025-06-18T14:33:51","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T14:33:51","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-11-02T11:12:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T17:12:46","slug":"cve-2025-5958-critical-heap-corruption-vulnerability-in-google-chrome-media-functionality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-5958-critical-heap-corruption-vulnerability-in-google-chrome-media-functionality\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>CVE-2025-5958: Critical Heap Corruption Vulnerability in Google Chrome Media Functionality<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Overview<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CVE-2025-5958 is a high-severity vulnerability discovered in Google Chrome, specifically within the Media functionality of the browser. This vulnerability, if exploited, allows a remote attacker to potentially corrupt the heap memory and execute arbitrary code within the context of the browser. Given the widespread use of Google Chrome globally, this vulnerability represents a significant risk to millions of users, and it is of utmost importance that necessary mitigation steps are taken promptly to prevent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-31222-potential-privilege-elevation-and-system-compromise-vulnerability\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"59689\">potential system compromises<\/a> or data leakage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vulnerability Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CVE ID: CVE-2025-5958<br \/>\nSeverity: High (CVSS: 8.8)<br \/>\nAttack Vector: Network<br \/>\nPrivileges Required: None<br \/>\nUser Interaction: Required<br \/>\nImpact: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-21475-critical-memory-corruption-vulnerability-leading-to-potential-system-compromise\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"59904\">Potential system<\/a> compromise or data leakage<\/p>\n<p><strong>Affected Products<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"ameeb-3942690520\" class=\"ameeb-content-2 ameeb-entity-placement\"><div style=\"border-left: 4px solid #555; padding-left: 20px; margin: 48px 0; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: #ffffff; line-height: 1.6; max-width: 700px;\">\r\n  <h2 style=\"margin-top: 0; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; display: flex; align-items: center;\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\" style=\"display: inline-flex; align-items: center; margin-right: 8px;\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Best-App-icon-Ameeba.png\" alt=\"Ameeba Chat Icon\" style=\"width: 40px; height: 40px;\" \/>\r\n    <\/a>\r\n    A new way to communicate\r\n  <\/h2>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"margin-bottom: 12px;\">\r\n    Ameeba Chat is built on encrypted identity, not personal profiles.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"margin-bottom: 16px;\">\r\n    Message, call, share files, and coordinate with identities kept separate.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <ul style=\"list-style: none; padding-left: 0; margin-bottom: 20px;\">\r\n    <li>\u2022 Encrypted identity<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 Ameeba Chat authenticates access<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 Aliases and categories<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 End-to-end encrypted chat, calls, and files<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 Secure notes for sensitive information<\/li>\r\n  <\/ul>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: 600; margin-bottom: 24px;\">\r\n    Private communication, rethought.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <div style=\"display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: 12px;\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\/download\" style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; padding: 10px 20px; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 6px; font-weight: 500;\">Download Ameeba Chat<\/a>\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ffffff; color: #ffffff; padding: 10px 20px; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 6px; font-weight: 500;\">Learn More<\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n<p>Product | Affected Versions<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-8011-high-severity-heap-corruption-vulnerability-in-google-chrome-v8\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"75606\">Google Chrome<\/a> | Prior to 137.0.7151.103<\/p>\n<p><strong>How the Exploit Works<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The exploit takes advantage of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-22088-use-after-free-vulnerability-in-linux-kernel-rdma-erdma-module\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"59744\">use-after-free vulnerability<\/a> in Google Chrome&#8217;s Media component. In computer programming, &#8216;use after free&#8217; refers to the attempt to access memory after it has been freed, which can cause a program to crash or, as in this case, can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-31259-vulnerability-in-macos-sequoia-allowing-for-potential-privilege-escalation\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"59718\">potentially allow<\/a> the execution of arbitrary code.<br \/>\nAn attacker can craft a malicious HTML <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-31424-sql-injection-vulnerability-in-wp-lead-capturing-pages-plugin\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"60228\">page to trigger this vulnerability<\/a>. Once a user opens this page in a vulnerable version of Chrome, the attacker can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2024-45574-memory-corruption-vulnerability-in-camera-kernel\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"59743\">corrupt the heap memory<\/a>. This could allow the attacker to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-3835-remote-code-execution-vulnerability-in-zohocorp-manageengine-exchange-reporter-plus\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"59857\">execute arbitrary code<\/a> within the context of the browser, potentially leading to full system compromise or data leakage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conceptual Example Code<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"ameeb-3369426830\" class=\"ameeb-content ameeb-entity-placement\"><div class=\"poptin-embedded\" data-id=\"f6b387694f681\"><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a conceptual example of how a malicious HTML page might be crafted:<\/p>\n<pre><code class=\"\" data-line=\"\">&lt;!DOCTYPE html&gt;\n&lt;html&gt;\n&lt;body&gt;\n&lt;script&gt;\n\/\/ Malicious JavaScript code that exploits the vulnerability\nvar buffer = new ArrayBuffer(100);\nvar dataview = new DataView(buffer);\ndataview.setFloat32(0, 0.1); \/\/ This causes use-after-free\n\/\/ More malicious code that uses the corruption to execute arbitrary commands\n&lt;\/script&gt;\n&lt;\/body&gt;\n&lt;\/html&gt;<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Please note that this is a simplified and conceptual example and the actual exploit might be much more complex and obfuscated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mitigation Guidance<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Users are strongly recommended to update their Google Chrome browser to version 137.0.7151.103 or later, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-52890-critical-acl-bypass-vulnerability-in-incus-system-container-and-virtual-machine-manager\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"64726\">contains a patch for this vulnerability<\/a>. As a temporary mitigation, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-5485-a-critical-vulnerability-pertaining-to-user-name-enumeration-in-web-management-interfaces\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"61517\">users could employ the use of a Web<\/a> Application Firewall (WAF) or Intrusion Detection System (IDS) to detect and prevent exploitation attempts. However, these are only temporary measures and updating to a patched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-52904-command-execution-vulnerability-in-file-browser-version-2-32-0\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"92236\">version of the browser<\/a> is the most effective solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview CVE-2025-5958 is a high-severity vulnerability discovered in Google Chrome, specifically within the Media functionality of the browser. This vulnerability, if exploited, allows a remote attacker to potentially corrupt the heap memory and execute arbitrary code within the context of the browser. Given the widespread use of Google Chrome globally, this vulnerability represents a significant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"vendor":[91],"product":[],"attack_vector":[],"asset_type":[],"severity":[],"exploit_status":[],"class_list":["post-53330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","vendor-google"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53330"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85450,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53330\/revisions\/85450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53330"},{"taxonomy":"vendor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vendor?post=53330"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=53330"},{"taxonomy":"attack_vector","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/attack_vector?post=53330"},{"taxonomy":"asset_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/asset_type?post=53330"},{"taxonomy":"severity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/severity?post=53330"},{"taxonomy":"exploit_status","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exploit_status?post=53330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}