Google Chrome prior to 56.0.2924.76 for Windows insufficiently sanitized DevTools URLs, which allowed a remote attacker who convinced a…

Description

Google Chrome prior to 56.0.2924.76 for Windows insufficiently sanitized DevTools URLs, which allowed a remote attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to read filesystem contents via a crafted HTML page.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

1.5% · top 26% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.

Weakness

• insufficient validation of untrusted input
• CWE-200 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-200 and its CVEs

Affected products

• Google Chrome prior to 56.0.2924.76 for Windows

  • affected Google Chrome prior to 56.0.2924.76 for Windows

References (7)

• 95792 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/01/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• GLSA-201701-66 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
• RHSA-2017:0206 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• https://crbug.com/662859 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 1037718 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• DSA-3776 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2017-5011](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2017-5011.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2017-5011)

Record last updated 5 Aug 2024, 14:47 UTC.