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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Chrome

Published: 2017-10-27T05:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T14:47:44.442Z

Reserved: 2017-01-02T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-5120

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-10-27T05:29:02.630

Modified: 2023-11-07T02:49:14.047

Link: CVE-2017-5120

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-5120 - Bugzilla