Vulnerability: Local Privilege Escalation via Symlink Handling and Race Condition in cryptohomed

CVE-2017-15405 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:M/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Inappropriate symlink handling and a race condition in the stateful recovery feature implementation could lead to a persistance established by a malicious code running with root privileges in cryptohomed in Google Chrome on Chrome OS prior to 61.0.3163.113 allowed a local attacker to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML page.

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