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CVE-2017-5119

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-5119 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting Google Chrome versions prior to 61.0.3163.79 (Mac, Windows, Linux) and 61.0.3163.81 (Android), as well as Debian Linux. It stems from the use of an uninitialized value in Skia, allowing a remote attacker to potentially extract sensitive information from process memory through a crafted HTML page. The attack requires user interaction (UI:R) and has a low impact on confidentiality (C:L). While there is no known active exploitation or public exploit code, the vulnerability has received some community discussion and media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 61.0.3163.100CPE 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

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
1.76%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
75.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0176 is in the 87th 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-0:61.0.3163.79-2.el6_9
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2017-5119Moderate

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 / 725127
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201709-15
debian.org / security/2017/dsa-3985
securityfocus.com / bid/100610
securitytracker.com / id/1039291