CVE-2017-15403 describes a command injection vulnerability in Google Chrome on Chrome OS prior to version 61.0.3163.113. This flaw, stemming from insufficient data validation in crosh's networking component, allowed a local attacker to execute arbitrary code with chronos privileges through a specially crafted HTML page. Rated 7.3 HIGH on the CVSS scale, this vulnerability requires user interaction (UI:R) but has low attack complexity (AC:L) and low privileges (PR:L), leading to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:H/I:H/A:H). While it garnered some media attention and community discussion, there is no evidence of active exploitation, nor is public exploit code available in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 61.0.3163.113CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.2 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.