CVE - CVE-2017-5120

CVE-ID
CVE-2017-5120	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
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).
References
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BID:100610 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100610 DEBIAN:DSA-3985 URL:http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3985 GENTOO:GLSA-201709-15 URL:https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-15 MISC:https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/09/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html MISC:https://crbug.com/718676 REDHAT:RHSA-2017:2676 URL:https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2676 SECTRACK:1039291 URL:http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039291
Assigning CNA
Chrome
Date Record Created
20170102	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20170102)
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Proposed (Legacy)
N/A
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