A memory corruption bug in WebAssembly could lead to out of bounds read and write through V8 in WebAssembly in Google Chrome prior to 62.0.…

Published 7 y ago 2019-01-09 · modified 4 mo ago 2026-06-17 · JSON

CVSS

8.8

v3.0 · NVD

CISA KEV

not known exploited

EPSS

2.0%

percentile 81%

Public exploits

none known

A memory corruption bug in WebAssembly could lead to out of bounds read and write through V8 in WebAssembly in Google Chrome prior to 62.0.3202.62 allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code inside a sandbox via a crafted HTML page.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

1.99% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 81% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned by	Version	Score	Vector
NVD	3.0	8.8	`CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`
NVD	2.0	6.8	`AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P`

Affected products

Google Chrome

Classification

Weakness

CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read
CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write

Technology feeds

Google Chrome (RSS, critical only)

References

crbug.com /766260 · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred
chromereleases.googleblog.com /2017/10/stable-channel-update-for-chrome-os_27.html · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred

Sources

CVE List: CVE-2017-15401
NVD: CVE-2017-15401

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