Security Advisory

CVE-2017-5120

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2017-10-27 05:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-05 14:47:44

Assigner Chrome

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

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).

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