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CVE-2017-5117

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-5117 describes a vulnerability in Google Chrome versions prior to 61.0.3163.79 on Linux and Windows, where an uninitialized value in Skia could allow a remote attacker to extract sensitive information from process memory. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.5) requires user interaction (UI:R) via a crafted HTML page, but has high confidentiality impact (C:H). While not currently listed in CISA's KEV catalog and lacking public exploit code, it has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness of the flaw.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 61.0.3163.79CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.71%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
75.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0171 is in the 87th percentile among its peer group of 26,234 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-0:61.0.3163.79-2.el6_9
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2017-5117Moderate

chromium-browser: use of uninitialized value in skia

Sep 5, 2017

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017:2676
chromereleases.googleblog.com / 2017/09/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
crbug.com / 739190
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201709-15
debian.org / security/2017/dsa-3985
securityfocus.com / bid/100610
securitytracker.com / id/1039291