Google Chrome prior to 56.0.2924.76 for Linux, Windows and Mac, failed to prevent alerts from being displayed by swapped out frames, which…

Description

Google Chrome prior to 56.0.2924.76 for Linux, Windows and Mac, failed to prevent alerts from being displayed by swapped out frames, which allowed a remote attacker to show alerts on a page they don't control via a crafted HTML page.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

1.4% · top 27% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.

Weakness

• insufficient policy enforcement
• CWE-1021 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-1021 and its CVEs

Affected products

• Google Chrome prior to 56.0.2924.76 for Linux, Windows and Mac

  • affected Google Chrome prior to 56.0.2924.76 for Linux, Windows and Mac

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/634108 (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-2017-5026](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2017-5026.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2017-5026)

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