High severity8.8NVD Advisory· Published Oct 27, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2017-5099

Description

Insufficient validation of untrusted input in PPAPI Plugins in Google Chrome prior to 60.0.3112.78 for Mac allowed a remote attacker to potentially gain privilege elevation via a crafted HTML page.

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Affected products

Google/Chrome2 versions
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <=60.0.3112.76
- (no CPE)range: <60.0.3112.78
Debian/linux
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
osv-coords2 versions
pkg:rpm/opensuse/chromium&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweed pkg:rpm/suse/chromium&distro=SUSE%20Package%20Hub%2012%20SP2
< 93.0.4577.82-1.1+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: < 93.0.4577.82-1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 60.0.3112.78-26.1

Patches

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References

www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3926nvd
www.securityfocus.com/bid/99950nvd
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1833nvd
chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/07/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.htmlnvd
crbug.com/733548nvd
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-15nvd

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