CVE-2017-5011

medium

Description

Google Chrome prior to 56.0.2924.76 for Windows insufficiently sanitized DevTools URLs, which allowed a remote attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to read filesystem contents via a crafted HTML page.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-66

https://crbug.com/662859

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/01/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037718

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95792

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3776

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0206.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-02-17

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium