CVE-2017-5120
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Oct 27, 2017
- Updated
- Aug 5, 2024
- Reserved
- Jan 2, 2017
Description
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).
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
Google Chrome prior to 61.0.3163.79 for Mac, Windows and Linux, and 61.0.3163.81 for Androidn/a |
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References
- https://crbug.com/718676
- GLSA-201709-15vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2017:2676vendor-advisory
- 1039291vdb-entry
- 100610vdb-entry
- DSA-3985vendor-advisory
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/09/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
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