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CVE-2017-5120

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CVE-2017-5120

Published: Oct 27, 2017

Modified: Aug 5, 2024

PUBLISHED

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).

VendorProductVersions

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

References

https://crbug.com/718676
x_refsource_MISC
GLSA-201709-15
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_GENTOO
RHSA-2017:2676
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_REDHAT
1039291
vdb-entry
x_refsource_SECTRACK
100610
vdb-entry
x_refsource_BID
DSA-3985
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_DEBIAN

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