Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-5029

Title: Xmlsoft Libxslt RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2017-5029.

CWE Category CWE-787

Published Date Apr 24, 2017

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 8.8 CVSS v3.1

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.13%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2017-5029: The xsltAddTextString function in transform.c in libxslt 1.1.29, as used in Blink in Google Chrome prior to 57.0.2987.98 for Mac, Windows, and Linux and 57.0.2987.108 for Android, lacked a check for integer overflow during a size calculation, which allowed a remote attacker to perform an out of bounds memory write via a crafted HTML page.

Impacted Vendors

techland 1

xmlsoft 1

google 1

Reference Links

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0499.html http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3810 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96767 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038157 https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/03/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html https://crbug.com/676623 https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxslt/commit/?id=08ab2774b870de1c7b5a48693df75e8154addae5 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0499.html http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3810 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96767 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038157 https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/03/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html https://crbug.com/676623 https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxslt/commit/?id=08ab2774b870de1c7b5a48693df75e8154addae5

CVSS v3.1

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

8.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

REQUIRED

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.8

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns