CVE-2017-15404 - An ability to process crash dumps under root privileges and inappropriate symlinks handling could lead to a local privilege escalation in Crash Reporting in Google Chrome on Chrome OS prior to 61.0.3163.113 allowed a local attacker to perform privilege escalation via a crafted HTML page

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HIGH

An ability to process crash dumps under root privileges and inappropriate symlinks handling could lead to a local privilege escalation in Crash Reporting in Google Chrome on Chrome OS prior to 61.0.3163.113 allowed a local attacker to perform privilege escalation via a crafted HTML page

Published Jan 9, 2019

7.8

HIGH

CVSS 3.0

EPSS 0.19%

Description

An ability to process crash dumps under root privileges and inappropriate symlinks handling could lead to a local privilege escalation in Crash Reporting in Google Chrome on Chrome OS prior to 61.0.3163.113 allowed a local attacker to perform privilege escalation via a crafted HTML page.

Affected products

Vendor Google Product Chrome Default
n/a
- Version
  unspecified
  Status
  affected
  Constraints
  <61.0.3163.113

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor

Product

Default status

Versions

Google

Chrome

n/a

Version	Status	Constraints
unspecified	affected	<61.0.3163.113

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-367

References (3)

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/10/stable-channel-updates-for-chrome-os.html
x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://crbug.com/766275
x_refsource_MISC
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2017-6857
Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/10/stable-channel-updates-for-chrome-os.html		x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://crbug.com/766275		x_refsource_MISC
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2017-6857		Advisory