An out-of-bounds read in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 57.0.2987.133 for Linux, Windows, and Mac, and 57.0.2987.132 for Android, allowed a…

Description

An out-of-bounds read in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 57.0.2987.133 for Linux, Windows, and Mac, and 57.0.2987.132 for Android, allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code inside a sandbox via a crafted HTML page, related to Array.prototype.indexOf.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

2.6% · top 15% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)

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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.6.

Weakness

• Out-of-bounds Read
• CWE-125 (opens in a new tab)Other CVEs with CWE-125

Affected products

• Google Chrome prior to 57.0.2987.133 for Linux, Windows and Mac, and 57.0.2987.132 for Android

  • affected Google Chrome prior to 57.0.2987.133 for Linux, Windows and Mac, and 57.0.2987.132 for Android

References (6)

• 97220 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• RHSA-2017:0860 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• GLSA-201704-02 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/03/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_29.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• http://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-17-462/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://crbug.com/702058 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_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)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2017-5053](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2017-5053.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2017-5053)

Record last updated 5 Aug 2024, 14:47 UTC.