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CVE-2017-15404

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-01-09 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-367

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.

Affected products

• Google Chrome: before 61.0.3163.113 — fixed in 61.0.3163.113

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Google Chrome 61.0.3163.113. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/10/stable-channel-updates-for-chrome-os.html
• https://crbug.com/766275
• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/10/stable-channel-updates-for-chrome-os.html
• https://crbug.com/766275

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