Inappropriate use of JIT optimisation in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 61.0.3163.100 for Linux, Windows, and Mac allowed a remote attacker…

Description

Inappropriate use of JIT optimisation in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 61.0.3163.100 for Linux, Windows, and Mac allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code inside a sandbox via a crafted HTML page, related to the escape analysis phase.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

5.3% · top 7.4% 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

• Inappropriate implementation
• CWE-20 (opens in a new tab)

Affected products

• Google Chrome prior to 61.0.3163.100 for Linux, Windows and Mac

  • affected Google Chrome prior to 61.0.3163.100 for Linux, Windows and Mac

References (8)

• 100947 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• GLSA-201709-25 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/09/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_21.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/mmpc/2017/10/18/browser-security-beyond-sandboxing/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• RHSA-2017:2792 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• 1039497 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• https://crbug.com/765433 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• DSA-3985 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_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.