CVE-2017-5055 is a high-severity use-after-free vulnerability in Google Chrome's printing component, affecting versions prior to 57.0.2987.133 on Linux and Windows. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw by enticing a user to visit a specially crafted HTML page, leading to an out-of-bounds memory read. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 8.8 (HIGH), indicating a critical risk with high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, requiring user interaction but with low attack complexity. While there is no evidence of active exploitation (KEV: No) and no public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB: None), the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, suggesting awareness within the security community.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 57.0.2987.133CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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.