Insufficient policy enforcement during navigation between different schemes in Google Chrome prior to 60.0.3112.78 for Android allowed a re…

published 2017-10-27 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-14205

cvss: 4.3; version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 1.3%; EPSS 1.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 70%
public exploits: 0; none known

Insufficient policy enforcement during navigation between different schemes in Google Chrome prior to 60.0.3112.78 for Android allowed a remote attacker to perform cross origin content download via a crafted HTML page, related to intents.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1 distros 3

google chrome 60.0.3112.78

ubuntu red hat opensuse

chromium-browser Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 60.0.3112.78-0ubuntu0.14.04.1190
chromium-browser Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 60.0.3112.78-0ubuntu0.16.04.1293

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2017-5096

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

chromium-browser RHEL 6 EXTRAS 60.0.3112.78-1.el6_9

red hat advisories RHSA-2017:1833

chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 93.0.4577.82-1.1
chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 113.0.5672.92-1.1
chromium Package Hub 12 SP2 60.0.3112.78-26.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10681-1 openSUSE-SU-2024:12948-1 openSUSE-SU-2017:1993-1 openSUSE-SU-2017:1994-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-5096 updated 2026-06-28 cvss 8.8

chromium-browser: user information leak via android intents

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 60.0.3112.78-1.el6_9 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 60.0.3112.78-1.el6_9 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 60.0.3112.78-1.el6_9
fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:1833

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Exploit prediction

1.31% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 70% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.0	4.3	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
NVD	2.0	4.3	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected products

n/a Google Chrome prior to 60.0.3112.78 for Android

Classification

Weakness

CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Technology feeds

Google Chrome rss critical rss

References

security.gentoo.org /glsa/201709-15
vendor-advisory
access.redhat.com /errata/RHSA-2017:1833
vendor-advisory
crbug.com /714442
chromereleases.googleblog.com /2017/07/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
securityfocus.com /bid/99950
vdb-entry

Sources

CVE List CVE-2017-5096
NVD CVE-2017-5096

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

Summary