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CVE-2017-5078
HIGH · CVSS 8.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-10-27T05:29:01.143 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:19:53.100

Summary

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

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References

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