CVE-2017-15405

7.0 highEPSS 0.2%

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

7.0 high

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

EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 8% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-362
Published: 2019-01-09
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

google:chrome

References

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/10/stable-channel-updates-for-chrome-os.html
https://crbug.com/766276
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/10/stable-channel-updates-for-chrome-os.html
https://crbug.com/766276

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