CVE-2017-5064 — chromium-browser: use after free in blink

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HIGH

chromium-browser: use after free in blink

Published Oct 27, 2017

8.8

HIGH

CVSS 3.0

EPSS 1.37%

Description

Incorrect handling of DOM changes in Blink in Google Chrome prior to 58.0.3029.81 for Windows allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

Affected products

Vendor n/a Product Google Chrome prior to 58.0.3029.81 for Windows Default
n/a
- Version
  Google Chrome prior to 58.0.3029.81 for Windows
  Status
  affected
  Constraints
  -

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

Vendor

Product

Default status

Versions

n/a

Google Chrome prior to 58.0.3029.81 for Windows

n/a

Version	Status	Constraints
Google Chrome prior to 58.0.3029.81 for Windows	affected	-

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary

chromium-browser-0:58.0.3029.81-1.el6_9

Fixed · RHSA-2017:1124

Product	Package	State	Advisory
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary	chromium-browser-0:58.0.3029.81-1.el6_9	Fixed	RHSA-2017:1124

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

1.37% 0.01374

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.01374

Score over time

2021–2026

EPSS v1
EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v1
EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (17 key points)

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Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	1.37% (0.01374)	71.00th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	1.37% (0.01374)	68.34th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 30, 2025	0.87% (0.00871)	73.11th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 29, 2025	2.01% (0.02009)	72.89th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 17, 2025	0.99% (0.00992)	75.33th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	1.50% (0.01505)	87.47th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Nov 8, 2023	1.50% (0.01505)	85.44th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 20, 2023	1.68% (0.01675)	85.71th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	2.17% (0.02165)	87.55th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.32% (0.01319)	71.27th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 23, 2023	1.32% (0.01319)	71.23th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.32% (0.01319)	69.22th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.32% (0.01319)	44.98th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 3, 2022	8.02% (0.08024)	85.04th	v1
Jan 6, 2022	8.02% (0.08024)	84.86th	v1
Sep 1, 2021	8.02% (0.08024)	92.49th	v1
Apr 14, 2021	8.02% (0.08024)	0.00th	v1

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-119

Buffer Overflow

References (10)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97939
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038317
vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1124
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5064
Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1443845
Issue Tracking
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/04/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
x_refsource_MISC
https://crbug.com/693974
x_refsource_MISC
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5064
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201705-02
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-5064

Link	Providers	Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97939		vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038317		vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1124		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5064		Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1443845		Issue Tracking
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/04/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html		x_refsource_MISC
https://crbug.com/693974		x_refsource_MISC
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5064
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201705-02		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-5064