High severity8.8NVD Advisory· Published Oct 27, 2017· Updated May 13, 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.

Affected products

Google/Chrome
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range: <=60.0.3112.76
Debian/Debian Linux
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

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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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