Spoofing attack in Google Chrome - CVE-2017-5086

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Spoofing attack in Google Chrome - CVE-2017-5086

Published: June 7, 2017 / Updated: June 11, 2021


Vulnerability identifier: #VU6971
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-2017-5086
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.

The vulnerability exists due to an address spoofing flaw in the Omnibox component of the Chromium browser. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted web page, trick the victim into visiting it and conduct URL spoofing attacks.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in content spoofing.




Affected software

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

How to mitigate CVE-2017-5086

Update to version 59.0.3071.86.

Google Chrome - update to 59.0.3071.86
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

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