CVE-2017-5011
Google Chrome prior to 56.0.2924.76 for Windows insufficiently sanitized DevTools URLs, which allowed a remote attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to read filesystem
02 Description
Google Chrome prior to 56.0.2924.76 for Windows insufficiently sanitized DevTools URLs, which allowed a remote attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to read filesystem
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 1.49% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 73.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 6.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Important. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2017-02-17 07:45Z9 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-05 14:47Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2017-01-02
- Assigning CNA
- Chrome
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-200Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized ActorClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- d8a901f0a9a7502aa41c9a6e0e9fabbe9785e9435357d21a68c5e72f5f6fd19b
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.securityfocus.com95792http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95792
- chromereleases.googleblog.comhttps://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/01/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201701-66https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-66
- rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2017:0206http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0206.html
- crbug.comhttps://crbug.com/662859
- www.securitytracker.com1037718http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037718
- www.debian.orgDSA-3776http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3776
07 Fixed in
Arch Linux
- chromium Fixed in 56.0.2924.76-1
Source: Arch Linux Security Tracker, the Arch Linux security team. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- chromium-browser Fixed in 58.0.3029.81-0ubuntu0.14.04.1172
- oxide-qt Fixed in 1.20.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- chromium-browser Fixed in 56.0.2924.76-0ubuntu0.16.04.1268
- oxide-qt Fixed in 1.20.4-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.