cvelist/2017/5xxx/CVE-2017-5120.json

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    "CVE_data_meta": {
        "ASSIGNER": "security@google.com",
        "ID": "CVE-2017-5120",
        "STATE": "PUBLIC"
    },
    "affects": {
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                                "product_name": "Google Chrome prior to 61.0.3163.79 for Mac, Windows and Linux, and 61.0.3163.81 for Android",
                                "version": {
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                    },
                    "vendor_name": "n/a"
                }
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    "description": {
        "description_data": [
            {
                "lang": "eng",
                "value": "Inappropriate use of www mismatch redirects in browser navigation in Google Chrome prior to 61.0.3163.79 for Mac, Windows, and Linux, and 61.0.3163.81 for Android, allowed a remote attacker to potentially downgrade HTTPS requests to HTTP via a crafted HTML page. In other words, Chrome could transmit cleartext even though the user had entered an https URL, because of a misdesigned workaround for cases where the domain name in a URL almost matches the domain name in an X.509 server certificate (but differs in the initial \"www.\" substring)."
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    "problemtype": {
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            {
                "description": [
                    {
                        "lang": "eng",
                        "value": "Inappropriate implementation"
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                ]
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    },
    "references": {
        "reference_data": [
            {
                "name": "https://crbug.com/718676",
                "refsource": "MISC",
                "url": "https://crbug.com/718676"
            },
            {
                "name": "GLSA-201709-15",
                "refsource": "GENTOO",
                "url": "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-15"
            },
            {
                "name": "RHSA-2017:2676",
                "refsource": "REDHAT",
                "url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2676"
            },
            {
                "name": "1039291",
                "refsource": "SECTRACK",
                "url": "http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039291"
            },
            {
                "name": "100610",
                "refsource": "BID",
                "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100610"
            },
            {
                "name": "DSA-3985",
                "refsource": "DEBIAN",
                "url": "http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3985"
            },
            {
                "name": "https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/09/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html",
                "refsource": "MISC",
                "url": "https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/09/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html"
            }
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