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CVE-2017-5053

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.6 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-10-27 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

An out-of-bounds read in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 57.0.2987.133 for Linux, Windows, and Mac, and 57.0.2987.132 for Android, allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code inside a sandbox via a crafted HTML page, related to Array.prototype.indexOf.

Affected products

• Google Chrome: before 57.0.2987.133; before 57.0.2987.132 — fixed in 57.0.2987.132, 57.0.2987.133
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 6.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 6.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 6.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Google Chrome 57.0.2987.132, 57.0.2987.133. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97220
• http://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-17-462/
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0860
• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/03/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_29.html
• https://crbug.com/702058
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201704-02
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97220
• http://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-17-462/
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0860
• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/03/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_29.html
• https://crbug.com/702058
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201704-02

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