CVE-2017-5078
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-5078
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-5078.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-5078
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2017-10-27T05:29:01.143Z
- Modified
- 2026-03-15T22:16:11.992268Z
- Severity
-
- 8.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
-
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 * have an incorrect interaction with xdg-email in xdg-utils, and a space character can be used in front of a command-line argument.
- References
Affected packages
Git /
Database specific
source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-5078.json"
unresolved_ranges
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