CVE-2017-5116 — Type Confusion in Google Chrome

CWE-843 — Type Confusion7 documents6 sources
Severity
8.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
55.8%
top 1.90%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
5
Google ChromeDebian LinuxRedhat Enterprise Linux Desktop+2 more
Timeline
PublishedOct 27
Latest updateAug 21

Description

Type confusion in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 61.0.3163.79 for Mac, Windows, and Linux, and 61.0.3163.81 for Android, allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code inside a sandbox via a crafted HTML page.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages4 packages

▶NVDgoogle/chrome< 61.0.3163.79+1

Also affects: Debian Linux 10.0, 9.0

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-hvc8-7rpc-2g6w: Type confusion in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 61↗2022-05-13
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OSV
CVE-2017-5116: Type confusion in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 61↗2017-10-27
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
Red Hat
chromium-browser: type confusion in v8↗2017-09-05
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📄Research Papers

1
arXiv
A Practical Guideline and Taxonomy to LLVM's Control Flow Integrity↗2025-08-21
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-5111 CVE-2017-5112 CVE-2017-5113 CVE-2017-5114 CVE-2017-5115 CVE-2017-5116 CVE-2017-5117 CVE-2017-5118 CVE-2017-5119 CVE-2017-5120 chromium: various flaws [fedora-all]↗2017-09-06
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Bugzilla
CVE-2017-5116 chromium-browser: type confusion in v8↗2017-09-06
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