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CVE-2017-15404

Published: 9 January 2019

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.

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.8

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
chromium-browser
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Not vulnerable

cosmic Ignored
(end of life)
disco Ignored
(end of life)
eoan Not vulnerable

trusty Does not exist
(trusty was ignored [no longer updated])
upstream
Released
xenial Not vulnerable

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.8
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H