CVE-2017-5042

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.7 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-04-24 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-311

Description

Cast in Google Chrome prior to 57.0.2987.98 for Mac, Windows, and Linux and 57.0.2987.108 for Android sent cookies to sites discovered via SSDP, which allowed an attacker on the local network segment to initiate connections to arbitrary URLs and observe any plaintext cookies sent.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
Google Chrome: through 57.0.2987.75; through 57.0.2987.100
RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 6.0
RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 6.0
RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 6.0

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0499.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3810
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96767
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/03/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
https://crbug.com/671932
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201704-02
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0499.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3810
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96767
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/03/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
https://crbug.com/671932
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201704-02

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