CVE-2017-18353
Visiting this route with a GET request allows any unauthorized remote attacker to disable the core service of the application.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.15%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
Rendertron 1.0.0 includes an _ah/stop route to shutdown the Chrome instance responsible for serving render requests to all users. Visiting this route with a GET request allows any unauthorized remote attacker to disable the core service of the application.
- CVSS 3.0
- 7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 1.15% probability · 67th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Affected
- google/rendertron
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 1.2% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=759111Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/GoogleChrome/rendertron/commit/8d70628c96ae72eff6eebb451d26fc9ed6b58b0ePatch
- https://github.com/GoogleChrome/rendertron/pull/88Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=759111Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/GoogleChrome/rendertron/commit/8d70628c96ae72eff6eebb451d26fc9ed6b58b0ePatch
- https://github.com/GoogleChrome/rendertron/pull/88Patch, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.