CVE-2017-5105

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-10-27 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Insufficient Policy Enforcement in Omnibox in Google Chrome prior to 60.0.3112.78 for Mac, Windows, Linux, and Android allowed a remote attacker to perform domain spoofing via IDN homographs in a crafted domain name.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 9.0
Google Chrome: through 60.0.3112.78
RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 6.0
RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 6.0
RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 6.0

References

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3926
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99950
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1833
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/07/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
https://crbug.com/729979
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-15
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3926
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99950
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1833
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/07/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
https://crbug.com/729979
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-15

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