{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2023-09-06T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "webkitgtk: use after free vulnerability",
    "id" : "2238943",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2238943"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "8.8",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-416",
  "details" : [ "A use-after-free issue was addressed with improved memory management. This issue is fixed in iOS 16.4 and iPadOS 16.4, macOS Ventura 13.3. Processing web content may lead to arbitrary code execution.", "A vulnerability was found in WebKit. When processing web content, it may lead to arbitrary code execution." ],
  "statement" : "This flaw is being rated as 'Moderate' as the WebKitGTK package is shipped as a dependency for the Gnome package. Additionally, Red Hat Enterprise Linux doesn't ship any WebKitGTK based web browser where this flaw would present a higher severity major threat.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Lifecycle Support",
    "release_date" : "2025-07-07T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2025:10364",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_els:7",
    "package" : "webkitgtk4-0:2.48.3-2.el7_9"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "release_date" : "2023-07-18T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2023:4202",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8",
    "package" : "webkit2gtk3-0:2.38.5-1.el8_8.5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "release_date" : "2023-11-14T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2023:7055",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8",
    "package" : "webkit2gtk3-0:2.40.5-1.el8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "release_date" : "2023-07-18T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2023:4201",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9",
    "package" : "webkit2gtk3-0:2.38.5-1.el9_2.3"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "release_date" : "2023-11-07T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2023:6535",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9",
    "package" : "webkit2gtk3-0:2.40.5-1.el9"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "webkitgtk",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "webkitgtk3",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-28198\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-28198\nhttps://webkitgtk.org/security/WSA-2023-0008.html" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2023-28198",
  "mitigation" : {
    "value" : "Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options don't meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.",
    "lang" : "en:us"
  },
  "csaw" : false
}