CVE-2017-5105 — chromium-browser: url spoofing in omnibox

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MEDIUM

chromium-browser: url spoofing in omnibox

Published Oct 27, 2017

6.5

MEDIUM

CVSS 3.1

EPSS 1.34%

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

Vendor n/a Product Google Chrome prior to 60.0.3112.78 for Mac, Windows, Linux and Android Default
n/a
- Version
  Google Chrome prior to 60.0.3112.78 for Mac, Windows, Linux and Android
  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 60.0.3112.78 for Mac, Windows, Linux and Android

n/a

Version	Status	Constraints
Google Chrome prior to 60.0.3112.78 for Mac, Windows, Linux and Android	affected	-

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary

chromium-browser-0:60.0.3112.78-1.el6_9

Fixed · RHSA-2017:1833

Product	Package	State	Advisory
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary	chromium-browser-0:60.0.3112.78-1.el6_9	Fixed	RHSA-2017:1833

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

1.34% 0.01342

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 2, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.01342

Score over time

2021–2026

EPSS v1
EPSS v5
EPSS v2
EPSS v3

Percentile over time

EPSS v1
EPSS v5
EPSS v2
EPSS v3

Table of values (11 key points)

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

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 2, 2026	1.34% (0.01342)	70.37th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Sep 20, 2026	1.34% (0.01342)	70.10th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jul 20, 2024	0.59% (0.00593)	78.54th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 27, 2024	0.59% (0.00593)	77.88th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Nov 8, 2023	0.59% (0.00593)	75.87th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Sep 3, 2023	0.34% (0.00339)	67.76th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.36% (0.00364)	68.01th	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-20

Improper Input Validation

References (10)

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3926
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99950
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1833
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5105
Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1475208
Issue Tracking
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/07/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
x_refsource_MISC
https://crbug.com/729979
x_refsource_MISC
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5105
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-15
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-5105

Link	Providers	Tags
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3926		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99950		vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1833		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5105		Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1475208		Issue Tracking
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/07/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html		x_refsource_MISC
https://crbug.com/729979		x_refsource_MISC
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5105
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-15		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-5105