CVE-2017-5124
Incorrect application of sandboxing in Blink in Google Chrome prior to 62.0.3202.62 allowed a remote attacker to inject arbitrary scripts or HTML (UXSS) via a crafted MHTML page.
02 Description
Incorrect application of sandboxing in Blink in Google Chrome prior to 62.0.3202.62 allowed a remote attacker to inject arbitrary scripts or HTML (UXSS) via a crafted MHTML page.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 5.14% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 92.0% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 6.1 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Important. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2018-02-07 23:00Z8 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-05 14:55Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2017-01-02
- Assigning CNA
- Chrome
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')Base
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 509c7ac1aac3070437ad08d3d3b942a83aad488c34389f783cf9b3f6544fc95c
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.securityfocus.com101482http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101482
- www.reddit.comhttps://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/7cus2h/chrome_61_uxss_exploit_cve20175124/
- chromereleases.googleblog.comhttps://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
- crbug.comhttps://crbug.com/762930
- www.debian.orgDSA-4020https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4020
- chromium.googlesource.comhttps://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/4558c2885e618557a674660aff57404d25537070
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2017:2997https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2997
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201710-24https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-24
- github.comhttps://github.com/Bo0oM/CVE-2017-5124
07 Fixed in
Arch Linux
- chromium Fixed in 62.0.3202.62-1
Source: Arch Linux Security Tracker, the Arch Linux security team. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- chromium-browser Fixed in 62.0.3202.62-0ubuntu0.14.04.1204
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- chromium-browser Fixed in 62.0.3202.62-0ubuntu0.16.04.1308
- oxide-qt No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- chromium-browser Fixed in 62.0.3202.62-0ubuntu0.17.10.1380
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.