High severity8.8NVD Advisory· Published Oct 27, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2017-5078
CVE-2017-5078
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.
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Affected products
7- cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- osv-coords2 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/chromium&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/suse/chromium&distro=SUSE%20Package%20Hub%2012%20SP2
< 93.0.4577.82-1.1+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: < 93.0.4577.82-1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 59.0.3071.86-20.1
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