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).
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Advisories
| Source | ID | Title |
|---|---|---|
Debian DSA |
DSA-3985-1 | chromium-browser security update |
EUVD |
EUVD-2017-14229 | 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). |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: Chrome
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-05T14:47:44.442Z
Reserved: 2017-01-02T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2017-5120
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Status : Deferred
Published: 2017-10-27T05:29:02.630
Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860
Link: CVE-2017-5120
OpenCVE Enrichment
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Debian DSA
EUVD