CVE-2017-5015 — Insufficient Visual Distinction of Homoglyphs Presented to User in Google Chrome

CWE-1007 — Insufficient Visual Distinction of Homoglyphs Presented to User7 documents6 sources
Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.6%
top 31.82%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
Google Chrome
Timeline
PublishedFeb 17
Latest updateMay 13

Description

Google Chrome prior to 56.0.2924.76 for Linux, Windows and Mac, and 56.0.2924.87 for Android, incorrectly handled Unicode glyphs, which allowed a remote attacker to perform domain spoofing via IDN homographs in a crafted domain name.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages1 packages

▶NVDgoogle/chrome55.0.2883.87

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-8w3v-w456-hx88: Google Chrome prior to 56↗2022-05-13
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OSV
CVE-2017-5015: Google Chrome prior to 56↗2017-02-17
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
Red Hat
chromium-browser: address spoofing in omnibox↗2017-01-25
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📐Framework References

1
CWE
Insufficient Visual Distinction of Homoglyphs Presented to User↗
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-5015 chromium-browser: address spoofing in omnibox↗2017-01-26
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Bugzilla
chromium: various flaws [fedora-all]↗2017-01-26
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