CVE-2017-15405

HIGH

Google Chrome < 61.0.3163.113 - Arbitrary Code Execution via Symlink Race Condition in Stateful Recovery

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Inappropriate symlink handling and a race condition in the stateful recovery feature implementation could lead to a persistance established by a malicious code running with root privileges in cryptohomed in Google Chrome on Chrome OS prior to 61.0.3163.113 allowed a local attacker to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML page.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Issue Tracking x_refsource_misc
https://crbug.com/766276

Scores

CVSS v3 7.0
EPSS 0.0019
EPSS Percentile 8.1%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-362
Status published
Products (1)
google/chrome < 61.0.3163.113
Published Jan 09, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026