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CVE-2017-15418

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-15418 describes a use of uninitialized memory vulnerability in Google Chrome's Skia component, affecting versions prior to 63.0.3239.84, as well as Debian and Red Hat distributions. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 4.3) allows a remote attacker to potentially obtain sensitive information from process memory by tricking a user into visiting a crafted HTML page. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor is there publicly available exploit code in Metasploit or ExploitDB, though it has garnered some community discussion and media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 63.0.3239.84CPE 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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

4.3MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.63%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
73.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0163 is in the 86th percentile among its peer group of 26,234 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-0:63.0.3239.84-1.el6_9
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2017-15418Moderate

chromium-browser: use of uninitialized value in skia

Dec 6, 2017

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017:3401
chromereleases.googleblog.com / 2017/12/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
crbug.com / 765858
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201801-03
debian.org / security/2017/dsa-4064