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CVE-2017-15404 Details

Description

An ability to process crash dumps under root privileges and inappropriate symlinks handling could lead to a local privilege escalation in Crash Reporting in Google Chrome on Chrome OS prior to 61.0.3163.113 allowed a local attacker to perform privilege escalation via a crafted HTML page.

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CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST: [email protected]CVSS-B:7.8 HIGHVector:CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URLSource(s)Tag(s)
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/10/stable-channel-updates-for-chrome-os.html CVE
https://crbug.com/766275 CVE
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/10/stable-channel-updates-for-chrome-os.html [email protected]
https://crbug.com/766275 [email protected]

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
CWE-367Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition[email protected]

Affected Products

ProductVersions
google chrome
< 61.0.3163.113

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.

Change History

7 change records found show changes

QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2017-15404
NVD Published Date:
Jan 9, 2019
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 17, 2026
Source:
[email protected]
CVE-2017-15404 Details - Not Deferred