CVE-2017-15404: Google Chrome

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An ability to process crash dumps under root privileges and inappropriate symlinks handling could lead to a local privilege escalation in Crash Reporting in Google Chrome on Chrome OS prior to 61.0.3163.113 allowed a local attacker to perform privilege escalation via a crafted HTML page.

Affected products

• Google Chrome: before 61.0.3163.113 (fixed in 61.0.3163.113)

Published 2019-01-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.