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CVE-2017-5078 (GCVE-0-2017-5078)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-10-27 05:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 14:47
VLAI
Summary
Insufficient validation of untrusted input in Blink's mailto: handling in Google Chrome prior to 59.0.3071.86 for Linux, Windows, and Mac allowed a remote attacker to perform command injection via a crafted HTML page, a similar issue to CVE-2004-0121. For example, characters such as * have an incorrect interaction with xdg-email in xdg-utils, and a space character can be used in front of a command-line argument.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • Insufficient validation of untrusted input
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98861 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://crbug.com/711020 x_refsource_MISC
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1399 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038622 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-20 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/06/sta… x_refsource_MISC
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
n/a Google Chrome prior to 59.0.3071.86 for Linux, Windows and Mac Affected: Google Chrome prior to 59.0.3071.86 for Linux, Windows and Mac
Date Public
2017-06-05 00:00
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