vulnerability

Google Chrome Vulnerability: CVE-2017-5007 Universal XSS in Blink

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Feb 17, 2017
Added
Feb 22, 2017
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

Blink in Google Chrome prior to 56.0.2924.76 for Linux, Windows and Mac, and 56.0.2924.87 for Android, incorrectly handled the sequence of events when closing a page, which allowed a remote attacker to inject arbitrary scripts or HTML (UXSS) via a crafted HTML page.

Solution

google-chrome-upgrade-latest
Title
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