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CVE-2017-5078

Date: October 27, 2017

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.

Language: Unix

Severity Score

Related Resources (10)

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5078
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/06/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038622
https://crbug.com/711020
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5078
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-20
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-5078
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98861
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1399
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2017-5078

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command ('Command Injection')

CWE-77

Insufficient Information

NVD-CWE-noinfo

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): REQUIRED
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): HIGH
Integrity (I): HIGH
Availability (A): HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC): MEDIUM
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): PARTIAL
Integrity (I): PARTIAL
Availability (A): PARTIAL
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