CVE-2017-5124
Incorrect application of sandboxing in Blink in Google Chrome prior to 62.0.3202.62 allowed a remote attacker to inject arbitrary scripts or HTML (UXSS) via a crafted MHTML page.
Does this matter?
A public exploit is published in Exploit-DB, so the technical barrier is gone even though the severity is medium and EPSS is 5.1%. Treat it as high on anything reachable from the internet.
Description
Incorrect application of sandboxing in Blink in Google Chrome prior to 62.0.3202.62 allowed a remote attacker to inject arbitrary scripts or HTML (UXSS) via a crafted MHTML page.
- CVSS 3.0
- 6.1 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- EPSS
- 5.15% probability · 92th percentile
- Public exploits
- 1 in Exploit-DB · first 3 October 2017
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Affected
- google/chrome · debian/debian linux
- Source
- chrome-cve-admin@google.com
EPSS moved from 8.2% on 21 September 2026 to 5.1% on 27 October 2026. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”.
Public exploits (1)
Entries in Exploit-DB that cite this CVE. Links go to the Exploit-DB page and to the file in the public repository; nothing is hosted here. A verified tick means the Exploit-DB team confirmed the exploit works against the stated version.
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101482
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2997
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
- https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/4558c2885e618557a674660aff57404d25537070
- https://crbug.com/762930
- https://github.com/Bo0oM/CVE-2017-5124
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-24
- https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4020
- https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/7cus2h/chrome_61_uxss_exploit_cve20175124/
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101482
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2997
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
- https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/4558c2885e618557a674660aff57404d25537070
- https://crbug.com/762930
- https://github.com/Bo0oM/CVE-2017-5124
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-24
- https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4020
- https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/7cus2h/chrome_61_uxss_exploit_cve20175124/
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.