CVE-2017-15405: Google Chrome

High severity, CVSS 7.0. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Inappropriate symlink handling and a race condition in the stateful recovery feature implementation could lead to a persistance established by a malicious code running with root privileges in cryptohomed in Google Chrome on Chrome OS prior to 61.0.3163.113 allowed a local attacker to execute arbitrary code 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.