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CVE-2017-5120

Published: 2017-10-27T05:29Z
Last Modified: 2024-11-21T03:27Z
Source: MITRE CVE List
License: MITRE-CVE-TOS
Inappropriate use of www mismatch redirects in browser navigation in Google Chrome prior to 61.0.3163.79 for Mac, Windows, and Linux, and 61.0.3163.81 for Android, allowed a remote attacker to potentially downgrade HTTPS requests to HTTP via a crafted HTML page. In other words, Chrome could transmit cleartext even though the user had entered an https URL, because of a misdesigned workaround for cases where the domain name in a URL almost matches the domain name in an X.509 server certificate (but differs in the initial "www." substring). > MITRE Terms of Use apply – see LICENSE‑MITRE.txt