CVE-2017-5120 (GCVE-0-2017-5120)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-10-27 05:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 14:47
VLAI
Summary
Inappropriate use of www mismatch redirects in browser navigation in Google Chrome prior to 61.0.3163.79 for Mac, Windows, and Linux, and 61.0.3163.81 for Android, allowed a remote attacker to potentially downgrade HTTPS requests to HTTP via a crafted HTML page. In other words, Chrome could transmit cleartext even though the user had entered an https URL, because of a misdesigned workaround for cases where the domain name in a URL almost matches the domain name in an X.509 server certificate (but differs in the initial "www." substring).
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • Inappropriate implementation
Assigner
Chrome CNA under the Google root
CNA scorecard E 43/100 over 3020 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
https://crbug.com/718676 x_refsource_MISC
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-15 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2676 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039291 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100610 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3985 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/09/sta… x_refsource_MISC
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
n/a Google Chrome prior to 61.0.3163.79 for Mac, Windows and Linux, and 61.0.3163.81 for Android Affected: Google Chrome prior to 61.0.3163.79 for Mac, Windows and Linux, and 61.0.3163.81 for Android
Date Public
2017-09-05 00:00
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