Google Chrome prior 61.0.3163.113 on Chrome OS Stateful Recovery HTML Page race condition

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A vulnerability described as critical has been identified in Google Chrome on Chrome OS. Affected is an unknown function of the component Stateful Recovery. Such manipulation as part of HTML Page leads to race condition. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2017-15405. The attack must be carried out locally. There is no available exploit. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability was found in Google Chrome on Chrome OS (Web Browser). It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code block of the component Stateful Recovery. The manipulation as part of a HTML Page leads to a race condition vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-362. The product contains a code sequence that can run concurrently with other code, and the code sequence requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence that is operating concurrently. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

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.

The bug was discovered 10/05/2017. The weakness was presented 01/09/2019 (Website). The advisory is available at chromereleases.googleblog.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2017-15405 since 10/17/2017. Local access is required to approach this attack. The requirement for exploitation is a simple authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 461 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $25k-$100k.

Upgrading to version 61.0.3163.113 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Web Browser

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• Google

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• Chrome

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• free

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• Vendor: https://www.google.com/
• Product: https://www.google.com/chrome/

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