CVE-2017-5078 Information

Description

Insufficient validation of untrusted input in Blink’s mailto: handling in Google Chrome prior to 59.0.3071.86 for Linux Windows and Mac allowed a remote attacker to perform command injection via a crafted HTML page a similar issue to CVE-2004-0121. For example characters such as LICENSE README.md cvefilelist cvelist nvdcve nvdpages.sh scripts test-CVE-2017-1882.markdown test-CVE-2017-18822.markdown tmpvendorlinks have an incorrect interaction with xdg-email in xdg-utils and a space character can be used in front of a command-line argument.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98861 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038622 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1399 https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/06/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html https://crbug.com/711020 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-20

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

8.8