Type confusion in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 61.0.3163.79 for Mac, Windows, and Linux, and 61.0.3163.81 for Android, allowed a remote…

Description

Type confusion in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 61.0.3163.79 for Mac, Windows, and Linux, and 61.0.3163.81 for Android, allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code inside a sandbox via a crafted HTML page.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

12.7% · top 3.7% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)

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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.

Weakness

• Type confusion
• CWE-843 (opens in a new tab)

Affected products

• Google Chrome prior to 61.0.3163.79 for Mac, Windows and Linux, and 61.0.3163.81 for Android

  • affected Google Chrome prior to 61.0.3163.79 for Mac, Windows and Linux, and 61.0.3163.81 for Android

References (8)

• GLSA-201709-15 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
• RHSA-2017:2676 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• 1039291 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• 100610 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• DSA-3985 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• https://security.googleblog.com/2018/01/android-security-ecosystem-investments.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/09/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://crbug.com/759624 (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)

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