What is CVE-2013-6645?

CVE-2013-6645 is a vulnerability in Apple Mac OS X, classified under Use After Free. Published 2014-01-16.

Is CVE-2013-6645 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Use After Free in Apple Mac OS X

CVE-2013-6645

Use-after-free vulnerability in the OnWindowRemovingFromRootWindow function in content/browser/web_contents/web_contents_view_aura.cc in Google Chrome before 32.0.1700.76 on Windows and before 32.0.1700.77 on Mac OS X and Linux allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors involving certain print-preview and tab-switch actions that interact with a speech input element.

Vulnerability class: Use-After-Free

Published 2014-01-16 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 6.8 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.013 (69.6th percentile), scored 2026-10-01.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 70th percentile — 69.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.013 · newest: 0.013 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Apple Mac OS X
Google Chrome
Linux Kernel
Microsoft Windows
Debian Linux — versions 7.0, 8.0
openSUSE — versions 12.3, 13.1

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-416 — Use After Free

Public proof-of-concept exploits

Live-Hack-CVE/CVE-2013-6645

References

src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail (Mailing List, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-02/msg00008.html (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory, Broken Link)
googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2014/01/stable-channel-update.html (Release Notes, Vendor Advisory)
code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail (Exploit, Mailing List, Vendor Advisory)
www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2862 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2013-6645?: CVE-2013-6645 is a vulnerability in Apple Mac OS X, classified under Use After Free. Published 2014-01-16.
Is CVE-2013-6645 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.