CVE-2017-15404 Race condition in Chrome

What is CVE-2017-15404?

CVE-2017-15404 is a high-severity vulnerability in Google Chrome, published on 9 Jan 2019. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-367

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-15404?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Chrome.

How do I fix CVE-2017-15404?

No fix has been published for CVE-2017-15404 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2017-15404 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-15404 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-3gxj-93jf-h822.