CVE-2017-5020 — Cross-site Scripting in Google Chrome

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting7 documents6 sources
Severity
6.1MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.5%
top 32.66%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
Google Chrome
Timeline
PublishedFeb 17
Latest updateMay 14

Description

Google Chrome prior to 56.0.2924.76 for Linux, Windows and Mac, and 56.0.2924.87 for Android, failed to require a user gesture for powerful download operations, which allowed a remote attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML page.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 2.7

Affected Packages1 packages

▶NVDgoogle/chrome55.0.2883.87

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-2mmr-5x9x-4m97: Google Chrome prior to 56↗2022-05-14
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OSV
CVE-2017-5020: Google Chrome prior to 56↗2017-02-17
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💥Exploits & PoCs

1
Exploit-DB
Microsoft Windows - Uniscribe Font Processing Heap Memory Corruption Around 'USP10!BuildFSM' (MS17-011)↗2017-03-20
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
Red Hat
chromium-browser: universal xss in chrome://downloads↗2017-01-25
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-5020 chromium-browser: universal xss in chrome://downloads↗2017-01-26
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Bugzilla
chromium: various flaws [fedora-all]↗2017-01-26
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