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Google Chrome Vulnerability: CVE-2017-5018 Universal XSS in chrome://apps

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Google Chrome Vulnerability: CVE-2017-5018 Universal XSS in chrome://apps

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
02/17/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
03/01/2017
Modified
11/08/2023

Description

Google Chrome prior to 56.0.2924.76 for Linux, Windows and Mac, and 56.0.2924.87 for Android, had an insufficiently strict content security policy on the Chrome app launcher page, which allowed a remote attacker to inject scripts or HTML into a privileged page via a crafted HTML page.

Solution(s)

  • google-chrome-upgrade-latest

References

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