CVE-2017-15404

HighCVSS 7.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 7.8/10CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-367

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
Jan 9, 2019
Last modified
Jun 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified

Related CVEs from 2017

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CVE-2017-15404: High severity, CVSS 7.8 | Vulnix