CVE-2017-5070
Published 2017-10-27 · Updated 2026-06-17 · Source chrome-cve-admin@google.com
Summary
CVE-2017-5070 is a high-severity (CVSS 8.8) vulnerability in Google Chromium V8. CISA added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on June 8, 2022, which means exploitation in the wild has been confirmed; US federal agencies had to remediate it by June 22, 2022. CISA does not currently list it as used in ransomware campaigns. Google has 76 vulnerabilities in the KEV catalog, 0 of them linked to ransomware.
All 76 known-exploited Google vulnerabilities →Description
Type confusion in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 59.0.3071.86 for Linux, Windows, and Mac, and 59.0.3071.92 for Android, allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code inside a sandbox via a crafted HTML page.
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA Known-Exploited Vulnerability
Product: Google — Chromium V8
Name: Google Chromium V8 Type Confusion Vulnerability
Date added: 2022-06-08 · Due: 2022-06-22
Required action: Apply updates per vendor instructions.
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98861
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038622
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1399
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/06/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
- https://crbug.com/722756
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-20
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98861
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038622

