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Strike ID:
E18-0f7e1
CVSS:
6.8 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
False Positive:
t
Variants:
1
Year:
2017

Description

This strike exploits a vulnerability in Google Chrome. Specifically, the vulnerability exists in the v8 Javascript engine. It is possible to craft Javascript in such a way that will allow for a use after free condition to occur. This may lead to a denial of service condition in the browser, or potentially remote code execution.

CVE

https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2017-5098

References

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=740803