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CISA KEV · ACTIVELY EXPLOITED
HIGH severity

CVE-2017-5070 — CHROME

HIGH

CVE-2017-5070 is a high-severity (CVSS 8.8) CWE-843 vulnerability in google chrome. It is in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2022-06-08) — treat it as actively exploited and patch now. A fix is available — see the affected versions and patch details below.

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…

Published
Updated
Affected
4 products
Patched
See advisory
Exploits
5 known
Exploitation data as of Oct 23, 2026 · OSV.dev, NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org (EPSS)

Exploitation Status

Actively exploited in the wild

  • Confirmed by CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2022-06-08. Federal agencies were required to remediate by 2022-06-22.
  • A successful exploit gives an attacker total control of the affected component, not partial access.

Exploitation and automatability from CISA (KEV catalog and SSVC triage) for CVE-2017-5070.

EPSS Exploitation Probability

via FIRST.org ↗
32.1%probability of exploitation in next 30 days
Moderate Risk0.00%
Lower risk than most CVEs98th percentile — riskier than 98% of all scored CVEsHighest risk
18.3%41.3%64.3%87.3%71.1%32.1%Apr 26Aug 26Oct 26

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.

How urgent is this, really

CVE-2017-5070 by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). Outside the shaded patch-first corner.

Where this sits among everything scored

Of 394,803 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the 10–50% band (highlighted). Counts from FIRST.org, log-scaled.

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.

Affected Products

4 products · 5 configurations
Application
chromegoogle
< 59.0.3071.92
range
OS
enterprise linux desktopredhat
1 version
6.0
OS
enterprise linux serverredhat
1 version
6.0
OS
enterprise linux workstationredhat
1 version
6.0
Exploits & PoCs
5

Research use only. For defensive security, authorized penetration testing, and academic research only. Never execute exploit code against systems without explicit written authorization.

Type confusion in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 59.0.3071.86 for Linux, W…

github.comAwesomePocJun 2020

Type confusion in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 59.0.3071.86 for Linux, W…

crbug.comNVDApr 2022

Type confusion in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 59.0.3071.86 for Linux, W…

cisa.govCISAJun 2022

Type confusion in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 59.0.3071.86 for Linux, W…

trendmicro.comAPIMar 2020

Detection & mitigation playbook

Vendor / appliance

  1. Detect

    Inventory every google chrome deployment and check each version against the affected-products list above.

  2. Fix

    Apply the google chrome security patch or hotfix for CVE-2017-5070 on the affected version, following the vendor advisory for your exact build.

  3. Workarounds

    If you can't upgrade right away: gate or disable the affected feature, validate untrusted input at the boundary, and avoid passing attacker-controlled data into the vulnerable path. O3's runtime protection blocks exploitation in production as an interim safeguard until the upgrade lands. Alongside that, restrict the management interface to trusted networks and apply the vendor's recommended configuration mitigations.

Fixing This On Your OS

If you run this on a Linux distribution, patch through your package manager against the distro's own security advisory below — it tracks the exact backported fix for your release, which can ship on a different timeline (and sometimes a different severity) than the upstream project.

Red HatImportant
ProductFixed inAdvisory
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementarychromium-browser-0:59.0.3071.86-1.el6_9RHSA-2017:1399

Frequently Asked Questions

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.
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Actively Exploited: CVE-2017-5070: CHROME (High 8.8)