CVE-2017-5078
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Oct 27, 2017
- Updated
- Aug 5, 2024
- Reserved
- Jan 2, 2017
Description
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.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
Google Chrome prior to 59.0.3071.86 for Linux, Windows and Macn/a |
|
References
- 98861vdb-entry
- https://crbug.com/711020
- RHSA-2017:1399vendor-advisory
- 1038622vdb-entry
- GLSA-201706-20vendor-advisory
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/06/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
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