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CVE-2017-15396

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-15396 describes a stack buffer overflow vulnerability in the International Components for Unicode (ICU) library, specifically affecting versions prior to 60.2. This flaw, present in products like Google Chrome (prior to 62.0.3202.75), Debian, and Red Hat, could allow a remote attacker to trigger heap corruption via a specially crafted HTML page. With a CVSS score of 6.5 (Medium), it requires user interaction (UI:R) but can lead to high availability impact (A:H). While there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB) is unavailable, and community discussion is minimal, though it has received some media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 62.0.3202.75CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.20%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
80.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0220 is in the 91st percentile among its peer group of 26,221 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 SupplementaryFixed in: chromium-browser-0:62.0.3202.75-1.el6_9
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2017-15396Important

chromium-browser: stack overflow in v8

Oct 26, 2017

References

bugs.icu-project.org / trac/changeset/40494
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017:3082
chromereleases.googleblog.com / 2017/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_26.html
crbug.com / 770452
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201711-02
debian.org / security/2017/dsa-4020
securityfocus.com / bid/101597