CVE-2017-15405 Race condition in Chrome

What is CVE-2017-15405?

CVE-2017-15405 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

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.

Weakness: CWE-362

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-15405?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Chrome.

How do I fix CVE-2017-15405?

No fix has been published for CVE-2017-15405 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2017-15405 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-15405 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-2wgf-8c9h-xvxv.