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CVE-2017-5099

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% 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-20

Description

Insufficient validation of untrusted input in PPAPI Plugins in Google Chrome prior to 60.0.3112.78 for Mac allowed a remote attacker to potentially gain privilege elevation via a crafted HTML page.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 9.0
• Google Chrome: through 60.0.3112.76

References

• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3926
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99950
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1833
• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/07/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
• https://crbug.com/733548
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-15
• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3926
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99950
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1833
• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/07/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
• https://crbug.com/733548
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-15

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