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high 8.8

CVE-2017-5030 kev in the critical feed json

Incorrect handling of complex species in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 57.0.2987.98 for Linux, Windows, and Mac and 57.0.2987.108 for Androi…

published 2017-04-24 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-14139

cvss
8.8
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Exploited
added 2022-06-08
epss
40.6%
EPSS 40.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 98%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Incorrect handling of complex species in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 57.0.2987.98 for Linux, Windows, and Mac and 57.0.2987.108 for Android allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML page.

Patch / fix

cisa required action Apply updates per vendor instructions.

  • google chrome 57.0.2987.98, 57.0.2987.108
  • oxide-qt Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 1.21.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
  • oxide-qt Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 1.21.5-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
  • chromium-browser Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 58.0.3029.81-0ubuntu0.14.04.1172
  • chromium-browser Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 57.0.2987.98-0ubuntu0.16.04.1276

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2017-5030

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 57.0.2987.98-1.el6

red hat advisories RHSA-2017:0499

  • chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 93.0.4577.82-1.1
  • chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 113.0.5672.92-1.1
  • chromium Package Hub 12 SP2 57.0.2987.98-8.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10681-1openSUSE-SU-2024:12948-1openSUSE-SU-2017:0738-1openSUSE-SU-2017:0740-1

  • chromium Arch Linux 57.0.2987.98-1

arch linux advisories AVG-197

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-2017-5030 updated cvss 8.8

chromium-browser: memory corruption in v8

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 57.0.2987.98-1.el6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 57.0.2987.98-1.el6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 57.0.2987.98-1.el6
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:0499

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

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. Added to CISA KEV
  3. CISA patch deadline
  4. CISA SSVC: exploitation active

Known exploited

Added
4 y ago
Patch by
2022-06-22 (4 y ago)
Ransomware
Not known
Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.
Vendor, product
Google, Chromium V8
CISA name
Google Chromium V8 Memory Corruption Vulnerability

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Active, exploited in the wild
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
21 mo ago

Exploit prediction

40.63% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • crbug.com https://crbug.com/682194 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CNA 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

  • n/a Google Chrome prior to 57.0.2987.98 for Linux, Windows and Mac, and 57.0.2987.108 for Android

Classification

Weakness
Technology feeds

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.