CVE-2017-15405
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CVE-2017-15405 is a vulnerability of currently unknown severity. Inappropriate symlink handling and a race condition in the stateful recovery feature implementation could lead to a persistance established by a malicious code running with root privileges in cryptohomed in Google Chrome on Chrome OS prior to 61.0.3163.113 allowed a local attacker to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML page.. EPSS estimates a 0.18% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Description
Inappropriate symlink handling and a race condition in the stateful recovery feature implementation could lead to a persistance established by a malicious code running with root privileges in cryptohomed in Google Chrome on Chrome OS prior to 61.0.3163.113 allowed a local attacker to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML page.
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Affected Software
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Chrome | < 61.0.3163.113 |
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- Status
- Modified
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