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CVE-2017-15405

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.0 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-362

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.

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/766276
• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/10/stable-channel-updates-for-chrome-os.html
• https://crbug.com/766276

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