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CVE-2017-5019

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-5019 describes a use-after-free vulnerability in Google Chrome versions prior to 56.0.2924.76 for Linux, Windows, and Mac, and 56.0.2924.87 for Android. This flaw allowed a remote attacker to potentially cause heap corruption through a specially crafted HTML page. Rated as MEDIUM severity (CVSS 6.3), it requires user interaction (UI:R) and could lead to limited confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts (C:L/I:L/A:L). There is no evidence of active exploitation (KEV: No), nor are there publicly available exploits in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, despite some community discussion and media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 55.0.2883.87CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.3MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.4
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.11%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
62.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0111 is in the 75th percentile among its peer group of 26,219 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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-0:56.0.2924.76-1.el6
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2017-5019Moderate

chromium-browser: use after free in renderer

Jan 25, 2017

References

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017-0206.html
chromereleases.googleblog.com / 2017/01/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
crbug.com / 666714
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201701-66
debian.org / security/2017/dsa-3776
securityfocus.com / bid/95792
securitytracker.com / id/1037718