PT-2019-8022 · Google+1 · Google Chrome+1

Published 2017-11-08 · Updated 2019-02-15 · CVE-2017-15405

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.0

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Google Chrome on Chrome OS versions prior to 61.0.3163.113

Description The issue is related to inappropriate symlink handling and a race condition in the stateful recovery feature implementation of cryptohomed. This could allow a local attacker to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML page if malicious code is running with root privileges.

Recommendations For versions prior to 61.0.3163.113, update to version 61.0.3163.113 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Race Condition

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-362

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-2600

CVE-2017-15405

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Google Chrome

References · 4

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-15405 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-15405 · Vendor Advisory
• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/10/stable-channel-updates-for-chrome-os.html · Note
• https://crbug.com/766276 · Note