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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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
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2017-10-27T05:29:02.630
Modified: 2024-11-21T03:27:05.823
Link: CVE-2017-5120
Redhat