Incorrect application of sandboxing in Blink in Google Chrome prior to 62.0.3202.62 allowed a remote attacker to inject arbitrary scripts…

Description

Incorrect application of sandboxing in Blink in Google Chrome prior to 62.0.3202.62 allowed a remote attacker to inject arbitrary scripts or HTML (UXSS) via a crafted MHTML page.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

5.1% · top 7.6% 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: Medium 6.1.

Weakness

• Inappropriate implementation
• CWE-79 (opens in a new tab)

Affected products

• Google Chrome prior to 62.0.3202.62

  • affected Google Chrome prior to 62.0.3202.62

References (9)

• 101482 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/7cus2h/chrome_61_uxss_exploit_cve20175124/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://crbug.com/762930 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• DSA-4020 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/4558c2885e618557a674660aff57404d25537070 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• RHSA-2017:2997 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• GLSA-201710-24 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
• https://github.com/Bo0oM/CVE-2017-5124 (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, 14:55 UTC.