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CVE-2017-5124

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 5.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-02-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Incorrect application of sandboxing in Blink in Google Chrome prior to 62.0.3202.62 allowed a remote attacker to inject arbitrary scripts or HTML (UXSS) via a crafted MHTML page.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
• Google Chrome: before 62.0.3202.62 — fixed in 62.0.3202.62

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Google Chrome 62.0.3202.62. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101482
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2997
• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
• https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/4558c2885e618557a674660aff57404d25537070
• https://crbug.com/762930
• https://github.com/Bo0oM/CVE-2017-5124
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-24
• https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4020
• https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/7cus2h/chrome_61_uxss_exploit_cve20175124/
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101482
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2997
• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html

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