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CVE-2017-5121
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…
High8.8EPSS 5.3%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Chrome
Description
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.
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)
- 5.3% · top 7.4% 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.
Weakness
- Inappropriate implementation
- CWE-20 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-20 and its CVEs
Affected products
Google Chrome prior to 61.0.3163.100 for Linux, Windows and Mac
- affected Google Chrome prior to 61.0.3163.100 for Linux, Windows and Mac
References (8)
- 100947 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- GLSA-201709-25 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/09/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_21.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/mmpc/2017/10/18/browser-security-beyond-sandboxing/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:2792 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 1039497 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- https://crbug.com/765433 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- DSA-3985 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_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-2017-14230 (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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