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UBUNTU-CVE-2017-5120 (CVE-2017-5120)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2017-10-27 05:29 – Updated: 2026-04-22 07:38 – Source website

Details

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

6.5 (Medium)


                    
                      CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5120	REPORT
	https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/09/sta…	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-5120	REPORT

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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-10-27 05:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 14:47

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Inappropriate implementation

Assigner

Chrome Google root

References

7 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

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
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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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date	Other

Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base model, served locally by ML-Gateway. They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
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