CVE-2017-5061 — chromium-browser: url spoofing in omnibox

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MEDIUM

chromium-browser: url spoofing in omnibox

Published Oct 27, 2017

5.3

MEDIUM

CVSS 3.1

EPSS 1.20%

Description

A race condition in navigation in Google Chrome prior to 58.0.3029.81 for Linux, Windows, and Mac allowed a remote attacker to spoof the contents of the Omnibox (URL bar) via a crafted HTML page.

Affected products

Vendor n/a Product Google Chrome prior to 58.0.3029.81 for Linux, Windows and Mac Default
n/a
- Version
  Google Chrome prior to 58.0.3029.81 for Linux, Windows and Mac
  Status
  affected
  Constraints
  -

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor

Product

Default status

Versions

n/a

Google Chrome prior to 58.0.3029.81 for Linux, Windows and Mac

n/a

Version	Status	Constraints
Google Chrome prior to 58.0.3029.81 for Linux, Windows and Mac	affected	-

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary

chromium-browser-0:58.0.3029.81-1.el6_9

Fixed · RHSA-2017:1124

Product	Package	State	Advisory
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary	chromium-browser-0:58.0.3029.81-1.el6_9	Fixed	RHSA-2017:1124

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

1.20% 0.01204

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.01204

Score over time

2021–2026

EPSS v1
EPSS v5
EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4

Percentile over time

EPSS v1
EPSS v5
EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4

Table of values (12 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	1.20% (0.01204)	67.15th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	1.20% (0.01204)	64.14th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
May 16, 2026	0.26% (0.00257)	49.14th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Jul 20, 2024	0.63% (0.00628)	79.22th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Apr 4, 2024	0.63% (0.00628)	78.63th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Nov 8, 2023	0.63% (0.00628)	76.62th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Sep 3, 2023	0.28% (0.00276)	64.15th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.34% (0.00340)	66.82th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.32% (0.01319)	71.27th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.32% (0.01319)	44.98th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 3, 2022	1.26% (0.01259)	30.64th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Apr 14, 2021	1.26% (0.01259)	0.00th	v1

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-362

Race Condition

References (10)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97939
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038317
vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1124
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5061
Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1443839
Issue Tracking
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/04/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
x_refsource_MISC
https://crbug.com/672847
x_refsource_MISC
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5061
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201705-02
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-5061

Link	Providers	Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97939		vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038317		vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1124		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5061		Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1443839		Issue Tracking
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/04/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html		x_refsource_MISC
https://crbug.com/672847		x_refsource_MISC
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5061
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201705-02		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-5061