CVE-2017-15405 describes a vulnerability in Google Chrome on Chrome OS, specifically in versions prior to 61.0.3163.113. This flaw involved inappropriate symlink handling and a race condition within the cryptohomed stateful recovery feature, allowing a local attacker to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML page. Rated with a CVSS score of 7.0 (HIGH), the vulnerability requires local access and has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, though it has high attack complexity. The attacker would need root privileges to establish persistence. There is no evidence of active exploitation, and no public exploit code is available in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB. Community discussion and media coverage are minimal, with only one article from SecurityWeek detailing the flaw.
| 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:H/PR:L/UI:N/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, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.4 InfoSec Media, 0.1 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.