CVE-2017-5121

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    CVE-2017-5121

    Published: 27 Oct 2017Last Modified: 10 Mar 2026

    Summary:

    Details: Inappropriate use of JIT optimisation in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 61.0.3163.100 for Linux, Windows, and Mac allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code inside a sandbox via a crafted HTML page, related to the escape analysis phase.

    References: http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039497, https://crbug.com/765433, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100947, , http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3985, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2792, https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-25, https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/09/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_21.html, https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/mmpc/2017/10/18/browser-security-beyond-sandboxing/

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    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
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    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High