Insufficient consistency checks in signature handling in the networking stack in Google Chrome prior to 58.0.3029.81 for Mac, Windows, and…

Description

Insufficient consistency checks in signature handling in the networking stack in Google Chrome prior to 58.0.3029.81 for Mac, Windows, and Linux, and 58.0.3029.83 for Android, allowed a remote attacker to incorrectly accept a badly formed X.509 certificate via a crafted HTML page.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.73% · top 46% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)

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

Weakness

• Inappropriate implementation
• CWE-347 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-347 and its CVEs

Affected products

• Google Chrome prior to 58.0.3029.81 for Mac, Windows and Linux, and 58.0.3029.83 for Android

  • affected Google Chrome prior to 58.0.3029.81 for Mac, Windows and Linux, and 58.0.3029.83 for Android

References (6)

• RHSA-2017:1124 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• https://crbug.com/690821 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• GLSA-201705-02 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
• 1038317 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/04/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• 97939 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_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)

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