CVE-2017-15404 — Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition in Google Chrome

CWE-367 — Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition2 documents2 sources
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 97.31%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
Google Chrome
Timeline
PublishedJan 9
Latest updateMay 13

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages2 packages

▶CVEListV5google/chromeunspecified — 61.0.3163.113
▶NVDgoogle/chrome< 61.0.3163.113

🔴Vulnerability Details

1
GHSA
GHSA-3gxj-93jf-h822: An ability to process crash dumps under root privileges and inappropriate symlinks handling could lead to a local privilege escalation in Crash Report↗2022-05-13
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