CVE-2017-15409 is a heap buffer overflow vulnerability in Skia, affecting Google Chrome versions prior to 63.0.3239.84, as well as Debian and Red Hat distributions. This high-severity flaw (CVSS 8.8) could allow a remote attacker to achieve heap corruption and potentially arbitrary code execution by enticing a user to visit a specially crafted HTML page. While no public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB) is available and it's not on the KEV catalog, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, indicating notable attention despite no confirmed active exploitation.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 63.0.3239.84CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
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:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.1 Security Researcher mentions.