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CVE-2017-5078

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-10-27 · updated 2026-06-17

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 * have an incorrect interaction with xdg-email in xdg-utils, and a space character can be used in front of a command-line argument.

Affected products

• Google Chrome: before 59.0.3071.86 — fixed in 59.0.3071.86
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 6.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 6.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 6.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Google Chrome 59.0.3071.86. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• 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
• 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

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