CVE-2017-5078 — Vulnetix

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CVE-2017-5078 PUBLISHED

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.

EPSS 2.70% · 85.8th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score

2.70%

85.8th percentile

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Ubuntu:16.04:LTS	oxide-qt	1.21.5-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, 1.20.4-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, 1.19.4-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
Ubuntu:14.04:LTS	chromium-browser	49.0.2623.87-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1112, 49.0.2623.108-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1113, 50.0.2661.102-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1117
Ubuntu:16.04:LTS	chromium-browser	58.0.3029.110-0ubuntu0.16.04.1281, 58.0.3029.96-0ubuntu0.16.04.1279, 58.0.3029.81-0ubuntu0.16.04.1277

Timeline

Jun 7, 2017 CVE Published
Apr 14, 2021 EPSS Score
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References

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5078 third-party-advisory
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/06/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html third-party-advisory
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-5078 third-party-advisory

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