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medium 4.3

CVE-2017-5118 json

Blink in Google Chrome prior to 61.0.3163.79 for Mac, Windows, and Linux, and 61.0.3163.81 for Android, failed to correctly propagate CSP r…

published 2017-10-27 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-14227

cvss
4.3
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.1%
EPSS 1.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 66%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Blink in Google Chrome prior to 61.0.3163.79 for Mac, Windows, and Linux, and 61.0.3163.81 for Android, failed to correctly propagate CSP restrictions to javascript scheme pages, which allowed a remote attacker to bypass content security policy via a crafted HTML page.

Patch / fix

  • google chrome 61.0.3163.79, 61.0.3163.81
  • chromium-browser Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 61.0.3163.100-0ubuntu0.14.04.1202
  • chromium-browser Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 61.0.3163.100-0ubuntu0.16.04.1306
  • chromium-browser Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 61.0.3163.100-0ubuntu1.1378

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2017-5118

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • chromium-browser RHEL 6 EXTRAS 61.0.3163.79-2.el6_9

red hat advisories RHSA-2017:2676

  • chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 93.0.4577.82-1.1
  • chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 113.0.5672.92-1.1
  • chromium Package Hub 12 SP2 61.0.3163.79-29.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10681-1openSUSE-SU-2024:12948-1openSUSE-SU-2017:2482-1openSUSE-SU-2017:2491-1

  • chromium Arch Linux 61.0.3163.79-1

arch linux advisories AVG-391

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-5118 updated cvss 6.5

chromium-browser: bypass of content security policy in blink

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 61.0.3163.79-2.el6_9 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 61.0.3163.79-2.el6_9 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 61.0.3163.79-2.el6_9
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:2676

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.13% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 66% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 4.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected products

  • n/a Google Chrome prior to 61.0.3163.79 for Mac, Windows and Linux, and 61.0.3163.81 for Android

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource
Technology feeds

References

Sources

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