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CVE-2017-15396
A stack buffer overflow in NumberingSystem in International Components for Unicode (ICU) for C/C++ before 60.2, as used in V8 in Google…
- 6.5MediumCVSS base score
- 2.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 17% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
A stack buffer overflow in NumberingSystem in International Components for Unicode (ICU) for C/C++ before 60.2, as used in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 62.0.3202.75 and other products, allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Chrome
- 11 months later
· 11 months later
Published
- 6 years later
· 6 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.2% · top 17% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Affected products
Google Chrome prior to 62.0.3202.75 unknown
- affected Google Chrome prior to 62.0.3202.75 unknown
References
7
- http://bugs.icu-project.org/trac/changeset/40494 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:3082 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://crbug.com/770452 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- DSA-4020 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 101597 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_26.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- GLSA-201711-02 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2017-6849 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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