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CVE-2017-5098
A use after free in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 60.0.3112.78 for Mac, Windows, Linux, and Android allowed a remote attacker to perform an…
- 8.8HighCVSS base score
- 15.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 3.2% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
A use after free in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 60.0.3112.78 for Mac, Windows, Linux, and Android allowed a remote attacker to perform an out of bounds memory read via a crafted HTML page.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Chrome
- 10 months later
· 10 months later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 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 | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 15.5% · top 3.2% 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: High 8.8.
Affected products
Google Chrome prior to 60.0.3112.78 for Mac, Windows, Linux and Android
- affected Google Chrome prior to 60.0.3112.78 for Mac, Windows, Linux and Android
References
6
- GLSA-201709-15 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- DSA-3926 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/07/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 99950 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:1833 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://crbug.com/740803 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_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-2017-14207 (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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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2017-5098)Record last updated .