Universal cross-site scripting in Google Chrome - CVE-2017-15429

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Universal cross-site scripting in Google Chrome - CVE-2017-15429

Published: December 15, 2017 / Updated: June 11, 2021


Vulnerability identifier: #VU9660
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-15429
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

The vulnerability exists in V8 due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.


Affected software

Google Chrome
Arch Linux
Gentoo Linux
Debian Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Fedora
Opensuse
qt5-qtwebengine
chromium

How to mitigate CVE-2017-15429

Update to version 63.0.3239.108.

Google Chrome - update to 63.0.3239.108
qt5-qtwebengine - addressed in versions 5.10.1-4.fc26, 5.10.1-4.fc27, 5.10.1-4.fc28
chromium - addressed in versions 63.0.3239.108-1.fc26, 63.0.3239.108-1.fc27

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