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CVE-2017-5040

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 23.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-04-24 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

V8 in Google Chrome prior to 57.0.2987.98 for Mac, Windows, and Linux and 57.0.2987.108 for Android was missing a neutering check, which allowed a remote attacker to read values in memory via a crafted HTML page.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
• Google Chrome: through 57.0.2987.75; through 57.0.2987.100
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 6.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 6.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 6.0

References

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0499.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3810
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96767
• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/03/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
• https://crbug.com/691323
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201704-02
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0499.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3810
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96767
• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/03/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
• https://crbug.com/691323
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201704-02

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