Vulnerabilities > CVE-2017-5121 - Improper Input Validation vulnerability in multiple products

047910
CVSS 8.8 - HIGH
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
HIGH
Integrity impact
HIGH
Availability impact
HIGH
network
low complexity
google
debian
redhat
CWE-20
nessus

Summary

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.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Google
3806
OS
Apple
1
OS
Linux
1
OS
Microsoft
1
OS
Debian
2
OS
Redhat
3

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables
    This attack pattern involves causing a buffer overflow through manipulation of environment variables. Once the attacker finds that they can modify an environment variable, they may try to overflow associated buffers. This attack leverages implicit trust often placed in environment variables.
  • Server Side Include (SSI) Injection
    An attacker can use Server Side Include (SSI) Injection to send code to a web application that then gets executed by the web server. Doing so enables the attacker to achieve similar results to Cross Site Scripting, viz., arbitrary code execution and information disclosure, albeit on a more limited scale, since the SSI directives are nowhere near as powerful as a full-fledged scripting language. Nonetheless, the attacker can conveniently gain access to sensitive files, such as password files, and execute shell commands.
  • Cross Zone Scripting
    An attacker is able to cause a victim to load content into their web-browser that bypasses security zone controls and gain access to increased privileges to execute scripting code or other web objects such as unsigned ActiveX controls or applets. This is a privilege elevation attack targeted at zone-based web-browser security. In a zone-based model, pages belong to one of a set of zones corresponding to the level of privilege assigned to that page. Pages in an untrusted zone would have a lesser level of access to the system and/or be restricted in the types of executable content it was allowed to invoke. In a cross-zone scripting attack, a page that should be assigned to a less privileged zone is granted the privileges of a more trusted zone. This can be accomplished by exploiting bugs in the browser, exploiting incorrect configuration in the zone controls, through a cross-site scripting attack that causes the attackers' content to be treated as coming from a more trusted page, or by leveraging some piece of system functionality that is accessible from both the trusted and less trusted zone. This attack differs from "Restful Privilege Escalation" in that the latter correlates to the inadequate securing of RESTful access methods (such as HTTP DELETE) on the server, while cross-zone scripting attacks the concept of security zones as implemented by a browser.
  • Cross Site Scripting through Log Files
    An attacker may leverage a system weakness where logs are susceptible to log injection to insert scripts into the system's logs. If these logs are later viewed by an administrator through a thin administrative interface and the log data is not properly HTML encoded before being written to the page, the attackers' scripts stored in the log will be executed in the administrative interface with potentially serious consequences. This attack pattern is really a combination of two other attack patterns: log injection and stored cross site scripting.
  • Command Line Execution through SQL Injection
    An attacker uses standard SQL injection methods to inject data into the command line for execution. This could be done directly through misuse of directives such as MSSQL_xp_cmdshell or indirectly through injection of data into the database that would be interpreted as shell commands. Sometime later, an unscrupulous backend application (or could be part of the functionality of the same application) fetches the injected data stored in the database and uses this data as command line arguments without performing proper validation. The malicious data escapes that data plane by spawning new commands to be executed on the host.

Nessus

  • NASL familyGentoo Local Security Checks
    NASL idGENTOO_GLSA-201709-25.NASL
    descriptionThe remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201709-25 (Chromium: Multiple vulnerabilities) Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Chromium. Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Impact : A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process or cause a Denial of Service condition. Workaround : There is no known workaround at this time.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id103464
    published2017-09-26
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/103464
    titleGLSA-201709-25 : Chromium: Multiple vulnerabilities
  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2017-EFEB59171D.NASL
    descriptionUpdate to 61.0.3163.100. Security fix for CVE-2017-5111, CVE-2017-5112, CVE-2017-5113, CVE-2017-5114, CVE-2017-5115, CVE-2017-5116, CVE-2017-5117, CVE-2017-5118, CVE-2017-5119, CVE-2017-5120, CVE-2017-5121, CVE-2017-5122 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-06-05
    modified2017-10-18
    plugin id103907
    published2017-10-18
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/103907
    titleFedora 26 : chromium (2017-efeb59171d)
  • NASL familyDebian Local Security Checks
    NASL idDEBIAN_DSA-3985.NASL
    descriptionSeveral vulnerabilities have been discovered in the chromium web browser. - CVE-2017-5111 Luat Nguyen discovered a use-after-free issue in the pdfium library. - CVE-2017-5112 Tobias Klein discovered a buffer overflow issue in the webgl library. - CVE-2017-5113 A buffer overflow issue was discovered in the skia library. - CVE-2017-5114 Ke Liu discovered a memory issue in the pdfium library. - CVE-2017-5115 Marco Giovannini discovered a type confusion issue in the v8 JavaScript library. - CVE-2017-5116 Guang Gong discovered a type confusion issue in the v8 JavaScript library. - CVE-2017-5117 Tobias Klein discovered an uninitialized value in the skia library. - CVE-2017-5118 WenXu Wu discovered a way to bypass the Content Security Policy. - CVE-2017-5119 Another uninitialized value was discovered in the skia library. - CVE-2017-5120 Xiaoyin Liu discovered a way downgrade HTTPS connections during redirection. - CVE-2017-5121 Jordan Rabet discovered an out-of-bounds memory access in the v8 JavaScript library. - CVE-2017-5122 Choongwoo Han discovered an out-of-bounds memory access in the v8 JavaScript library.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id103539
    published2017-09-29
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/103539
    titleDebian DSA-3985-1 : chromium-browser - security update
  • NASL familyRed Hat Local Security Checks
    NASL idREDHAT-RHSA-2017-2792.NASL
    descriptionAn update for chromium-browser is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section. Chromium is an open source web browser, powered by WebKit (Blink). This update upgrades Chromium to version 61.0.3163.100. Security Fix(es) : * Multiple flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause Chromium to crash, execute arbitrary code, or disclose sensitive information when visited by the victim. (CVE-2017-5121, CVE-2017-5122)
    last seen2020-05-31
    modified2017-09-26
    plugin id103465
    published2017-09-26
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/103465
    titleRHEL 6 : chromium-browser (RHSA-2017:2792)
  • NASL familyWindows
    NASL idGOOGLE_CHROME_61_0_3163_100.NASL
    descriptionThe version of Google Chrome installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 61.0.3163.100. It is, therefore, affected by two out-of- bounds access flaws related to the V8 JavaScript engine that have unspecified impact. Note that Nessus has not attempted to exploit these issues but has instead relied only on the application
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id103421
    published2017-09-22
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/103421
    titleGoogle Chrome < 61.0.3163.100 Multiple Vulnerabilities
  • NASL familyMacOS X Local Security Checks
    NASL idMACOSX_GOOGLE_CHROME_61_0_3163_100.NASL
    descriptionThe version of Google Chrome installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is prior to 61.0.3163.100. It is, therefore, affected by two out-of- bounds access flaws related to the V8 JavaScript engine that have unspecified impact. Note that Nessus has not attempted to exploit these issues but has instead relied only on the application
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id103422
    published2017-09-22
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/103422
    titleGoogle Chrome < 61.0.3163.100 Multiple Vulnerabilities (macOS)
  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idOPENSUSE-2017-1085.NASL
    descriptionThis update to Chromium 61.0.3163.100 fixes the following vulnerabilities : - CVE-2017-5121: Out-of-bounds access in V8 - CVE-2017-5122: Out-of-bounds access in V8 - Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives
    last seen2020-06-05
    modified2017-09-25
    plugin id103451
    published2017-09-25
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/103451
    titleopenSUSE Security Update : Chromium (openSUSE-2017-1085)
  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2017-109F8DB088.NASL
    descriptionUpdate to 61.0.3163.100. Security fix for CVE-2017-5111, CVE-2017-5112, CVE-2017-5113, CVE-2017-5114, CVE-2017-5115, CVE-2017-5116, CVE-2017-5117, CVE-2017-5118, CVE-2017-5119, CVE-2017-5120, CVE-2017-5121, CVE-2017-5122 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-06-05
    modified2018-01-15
    plugin id105815
    published2018-01-15
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2018-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/105815
    titleFedora 27 : chromium (2017-109f8db088)
  • NASL familyFreeBSD Local Security Checks
    NASL idFREEBSD_PKG_917E55199FDD11E78B58E8E0B747A45A.NASL
    descriptionGoogle Chrome releases reports : 3 security fixes in this release, including : - [765433] High CVE-2017-5121: Out-of-bounds access in V8. Reported by Jordan Rabet, Microsoft Offensive Security Research and Microsoft ChakraCore team on 2017-09-14 - [752423] High CVE-2017-5122: Out-of-bounds access in V8. Reported by Choongwoo Han of Naver Corporation on 2017-08-04 - [767508] Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id103441
    published2017-09-25
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/103441
    titleFreeBSD : chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities (917e5519-9fdd-11e7-8b58-e8e0b747a45a)

Redhat

advisories
rhsa
idRHSA-2017:2792
rpms
  • chromium-browser-0:61.0.3163.100-1.el6_9
  • chromium-browser-debuginfo-0:61.0.3163.100-1.el6_9