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CVE-2017-5078

Published: Oct 27, 2017

Modified: Aug 5, 2024

PUBLISHED

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.

VendorProductVersions

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

References

98861
vdb-entry
x_refsource_BID
https://crbug.com/711020
x_refsource_MISC
RHSA-2017:1399
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_REDHAT
1038622
vdb-entry
x_refsource_SECTRACK
GLSA-201706-20
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_GENTOO

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