Spoofing attack in Google Chrome - CVE-2017-5083

Vulnerability identifier: #VU6969

CSH Severity: Low

CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2017-5083

CWE-ID: CWE-264

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.

The vulnerability exists due to UI spoofing flaw has been found in the Blink component of the Chromium browser. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted web page, trick the victim into visiting it and conduct spoofing attacks.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in content spoofing.

Google Chrome
Arch Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Fedora
Opensuse
qt5-qtwebengine
chromium-native_client
chromium

Update to version 59.0.3071.86.

Google Chrome - update to 59.0.3071.86
qt5-qtwebengine - addressed in versions 5.9.1-1.fc25, 5.9.1-1.fc26
chromium-native_client - addressed in versions 59.0.3071.86-1.20170607gitaac1de2.fc24, 59.0.3071.86-1.20170607gitaac1de2.fc25, 59.0.3071.86-1.20170607gitaac1de2.fc26
chromium - addressed in versions 59.0.3071.86-3.el7, 59.0.3071.104-1.el7

• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/06/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html?utm_source=feed...
• https://security.archlinux.org/advisory/ASA-201706-8

• Multiple vulnerabilities in Google Chrome
• openSUSE update for chromium
• Arch Linux update for qt5-webengine
• Arch Linux update for chromium
• OpenSUSE Linux update for chromium
• Red Hat update for chromium-browser
• Fedora EPEL 7 update for chromium
• Fedora 24 update for chromium-native_client
• Fedora 25 update for chromium-native_client
• Fedora 26 update for chromium-native_client
• Fedora EPEL 7 update for chromium
• Fedora 26 update for qt5-qtwebengine
• Fedora 25 update for qt5-qtwebengine