chromium-browser: possible command injection in mailto handling
Published Oct 27, 2017
8.8
HIGHCVSS 3.1
EPSS 2.77%
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
- Vendor n/a Product Google Chrome prior to 59.0.3071.86 for Linux, Windows and Mac Defaultn/a
- Version Google Chrome prior to 59.0.3071.86 for Linux, Windows and MacStatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version
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 59.0.3071.86 for Linux, Windows and Mac | n/a |
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Configuration 1
Configuration 2
- 6.0
- 6.0
- 6.0
No data.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary
chromium-browser-0:59.0.3071.86-1.el6_9
Fixed · RHSA-2017:1399
| Product | Package | State | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary | chromium-browser-0:59.0.3071.86-1.el6_9 | Fixed | RHSA-2017:1399 |
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
No remediation recorded yet.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.
Score over time
2021–2026- EPSS v1
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Percentile over time
- EPSS v1
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Table of values (19 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2026 | 2.77% (0.02775) | 85.85th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 2.77% (0.02775) | 84.43th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Nov 22, 2025 | 2.86% (0.02862) | 85.77th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Apr 18, 2025 | 1.78% (0.01782) | 81.68th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Apr 7, 2025 | 4.59% (0.04595) | 88.26th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 3.07% (0.03069) | 85.83th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Jul 20, 2024 | 2.17% (0.02166) | 89.48th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Nov 8, 2023 | 2.17% (0.02166) | 88.10th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| May 8, 2023 | 2.08% (0.02075) | 87.36th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 20, 2023 | 2.89% (0.02889) | 89.19th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 3.06% (0.03063) | 89.46th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 1.32% (0.01319) | 71.27th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 23, 2023 | 1.32% (0.01319) | 71.23th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Apr 1, 2022 | 1.32% (0.01319) | 69.22th | 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 | v1 |
| Jan 6, 2022 | 1.26% (0.01259) | 29.99th | v1 |
| Sep 1, 2021 | 1.26% (0.01259) | 68.68th | v1 |
| Apr 14, 2021 | 1.26% (0.01259) | 0.00th | v1 |
No CWE recorded.
References (10)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98861 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038622 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1399 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5078 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1459031 Issue Tracking
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/06/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html x_refsource_MISC
- https://crbug.com/711020 x_refsource_MISC
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5078
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-20 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-5078
| Link | Providers | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98861 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID | |
| http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038622 | vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK | |
| https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1399 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT | |
| https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5078 | Vendor Advisory | |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1459031 | Issue Tracking | |
| https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/06/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html | x_refsource_MISC | |
| https://crbug.com/711020 | x_refsource_MISC | |
| https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5078 | ||
| https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-20 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO | |
| https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-5078 |
Change history (0)
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