Vulnerabilities > CVE-2017-5020 - Cross-site Scripting vulnerability in Google Chrome

047910
CVSS 6.1 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
LOW
Integrity impact
LOW
Availability impact
NONE
network
low complexity
google
CWE-79
nessus

Summary

Google Chrome prior to 56.0.2924.76 for Linux, Windows and Mac, and 56.0.2924.87 for Android, failed to require a user gesture for powerful download operations, which allowed a remote attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML page.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Google
3779

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Cross Site Scripting through Log Files
    An attacker may leverage a system weakness where logs are susceptible to log injection to insert scripts into the system's logs. If these logs are later viewed by an administrator through a thin administrative interface and the log data is not properly HTML encoded before being written to the page, the attackers' scripts stored in the log will be executed in the administrative interface with potentially serious consequences. This attack pattern is really a combination of two other attack patterns: log injection and stored cross site scripting.
  • Embedding Scripts in Non-Script Elements
    This attack is a form of Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) where malicious scripts are embedded in elements that are not expected to host scripts such as image tags (<img>), comments in XML documents (< !-CDATA->), etc. These tags may not be subject to the same input validation, output validation, and other content filtering and checking routines, so this can create an opportunity for an attacker to tunnel through the application's elements and launch a XSS attack through other elements. As with all remote attacks, it is important to differentiate the ability to launch an attack (such as probing an internal network for unpatched servers) and the ability of the remote attacker to collect and interpret the output of said attack.
  • Embedding Scripts within Scripts
    An attack of this type exploits a programs' vulnerabilities that are brought on by allowing remote hosts to execute scripts. The attacker leverages this capability to execute scripts to execute his/her own script by embedding it within other scripts that the target software is likely to execute. The attacker must have the ability to inject script into script that is likely to be executed. If this is done, then the attacker can potentially launch a variety of probes and attacks against the web server's local environment, in many cases the so-called DMZ, back end resources the web server can communicate with, and other hosts. With the proliferation of intermediaries, such as Web App Firewalls, network devices, and even printers having JVMs and Web servers, there are many locales where an attacker can inject malicious scripts. Since this attack pattern defines scripts within scripts, there are likely privileges to execute said attack on the host. Of course, these attacks are not solely limited to the server side, client side scripts like Ajax and client side JavaScript can contain malicious scripts as well. In general all that is required is for there to be sufficient privileges to execute a script, but not protected against writing.
  • Cross-Site Scripting in Error Pages
    An attacker distributes a link (or possibly some other query structure) with a request to a third party web server that is malformed and also contains a block of exploit code in order to have the exploit become live code in the resulting error page. When the third party web server receives the crafted request and notes the error it then creates an error message that echoes the malformed message, including the exploit. Doing this converts the exploit portion of the message into to valid language elements that are executed by the viewing browser. When a victim executes the query provided by the attacker the infected error message error message is returned including the exploit code which then runs in the victim's browser. XSS can result in execution of code as well as data leakage (e.g. session cookies can be sent to the attacker). This type of attack is especially dangerous since the exploit appears to come from the third party web server, who the victim may trust and hence be more vulnerable to deception.
  • Cross-Site Scripting Using Alternate Syntax
    The attacker uses alternate forms of keywords or commands that result in the same action as the primary form but which may not be caught by filters. For example, many keywords are processed in a case insensitive manner. If the site's web filtering algorithm does not convert all tags into a consistent case before the comparison with forbidden keywords it is possible to bypass filters (e.g., incomplete black lists) by using an alternate case structure. For example, the "script" tag using the alternate forms of "Script" or "ScRiPt" may bypass filters where "script" is the only form tested. Other variants using different syntax representations are also possible as well as using pollution meta-characters or entities that are eventually ignored by the rendering engine. The attack can result in the execution of otherwise prohibited functionality.

Nessus

  • NASL familyGentoo Local Security Checks
    NASL idGENTOO_GLSA-201701-66.NASL
    descriptionThe remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201701-66 (Chromium: Multiple vulnerabilities) Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Chromium web browser. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact : A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process, cause a Denial of Service condition, obtain sensitive information, bypass security restrictions, or perform cross-site scripting (XSS). Workaround : There is no known workaround at this time.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id96852
    published2017-01-30
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/96852
    titleGLSA-201701-66 : Chromium: Multiple vulnerabilities
  • NASL familyDebian Local Security Checks
    NASL idDEBIAN_DSA-3776.NASL
    descriptionSeveral vulnerabilities have been discovered in the chromium web browser. - CVE-2017-5006 Mariusz Mlynski discovered a cross-site scripting issue. - CVE-2017-5007 Mariusz Mlynski discovered another cross-site scripting issue. - CVE-2017-5008 Mariusz Mlynski discovered a third cross-site scripting issue. - CVE-2017-5009 Sean Stanek and Chip Bradford discovered an out-of-bounds memory issue in the webrtc library. - CVE-2017-5010 Mariusz Mlynski discovered a fourth cross-site scripting issue. - CVE-2017-5011 Khalil Zhani discovered a way to access unauthorized files in the developer tools. - CVE-2017-5012 Gergely Nagy discovered a heap overflow issue in the v8 JavaScript library. - CVE-2017-5013 Haosheng Wang discovered a URL spoofing issue. - CVE-2017-5014 sweetchip discovered a heap overflow issue in the skia library. - CVE-2017-5015 Armin Razmdjou discovered a URL spoofing issue. - CVE-2017-5016 Haosheng Wang discovered another URL spoofing issue. - CVE-2017-5017 danberm discovered an uninitialized memory issue in support for webm video files. - CVE-2017-5018 Rob Wu discovered a cross-site scripting issue. - CVE-2017-5019 Wadih Matar discovered a use-after-free issue. - CVE-2017-5020 Rob Wu discovered another cross-site scripting issue. - CVE-2017-5021 Rob Wu discovered a use-after-free issue in extensions. - CVE-2017-5022 PKAV Team discovered a way to bypass the Content Security Policy. - CVE-2017-5023 UK
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    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id96885
    published2017-01-31
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/96885
    titleDebian DSA-3776-1 : chromium-browser - security update
  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2017-E83C26A8C9.NASL
    descriptionThis update updates QtWebEngine to the 5.9.0 release. QtWebEngine 5.9.0 is part of the Qt 5.9.0 release, but only the QtWebEngine component is included in this update. The update fixes the following security issues in QtWebEngine 5.8.0: CVE-2017-5006, CVE-2017-5007, CVE-2017-5008, CVE-2017-5009, CVE-2017-5010, CVE-2017-5011, CVE-2017-5012, CVE-2017-5013, CVE-2017-5014, CVE-2017-5015, CVE-2017-5016, CVE-2017-5017, CVE-2017-5018, CVE-2017-5019, CVE-2017-5020, CVE-2017-5021, CVE-2017-5022, CVE-2017-5023, CVE-2017-5024, CVE-2017-5025, CVE-2017-5026, CVE-2017-5027, CVE-2017-5029, CVE-2017-5032, CVE-2017-5033, CVE-2017-5034, CVE-2017-5036, CVE-2017-5039, CVE-2017-5040, CVE-2017-5044, CVE-2017-5045, CVE-2017-5046, CVE-2017-5052, CVE-2017-5053, CVE-2017-5055, CVE-2017-5057, CVE-2017-5058, CVE-2017-5059, CVE-2017-5060, CVE-2017-5061, CVE-2017-5062, CVE-2017-5065, CVE-2017-5066, CVE-2017-5067, CVE-2017-5068, and CVE-2017-5069. Other important changes include : - Based on Chromium 56.0.2924.122 with security fixes from Chromium up to version 58.0.3029.96. (5.8.0 was based on Chromium 53.0.2785.148 with security fixes from Chromium up to version 55.0.2883.75.) - [QTBUG-54650, QTBUG-59922] Accessibility is now disabled by default on Linux, like it is in Chrome, due to poor options for enabling it conditionally and its heavy performance impact. Set the environment variable `QTWEBENGINE_ENABLE_LINUX_ACCESSIBILITY` to enable it again. - [QTBUG-56531] Enabled `filesystem:` protocol handler. - [QTBUG-57720] Optimized incremental scene-graph rendering in particular for software rendering. - [QTBUG-60049] Enabled brotli support. - Many bug fixes, see https://code.qt.io/cgit/qt/qtwebengine.git/tree/dist/cha nges-5.9.0?h=5.9 for details. In addition, this build includes a fix for https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-61521 , a binary incompatibility in QtWebEngine 5.9.0 compared to 5.8.0. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-06-05
    modified2017-07-17
    plugin id101740
    published2017-07-17
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/101740
    titleFedora 26 : qt5-qtwebengine (2017-e83c26a8c9)
  • NASL familyRed Hat Local Security Checks
    NASL idREDHAT-RHSA-2017-0206.NASL
    descriptionAn update for chromium-browser is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section. Chromium is an open source web browser, powered by WebKit (Blink). This update upgrades Chromium to version 56.0.2924.76. Security Fix(es) : * Multiple flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause Chromium to crash, execute arbitrary code, or disclose sensitive information when visited by the victim. (CVE-2017-5006, CVE-2017-5007, CVE-2017-5008, CVE-2017-5009, CVE-2017-5010, CVE-2017-5011, CVE-2017-5012, CVE-2017-5013, CVE-2017-5014, CVE-2017-5015, CVE-2017-5016, CVE-2017-5017, CVE-2017-5018, CVE-2017-5019, CVE-2017-5020, CVE-2017-5021, CVE-2017-5022, CVE-2017-5023, CVE-2017-5024, CVE-2017-5025, CVE-2017-5026)
    last seen2020-05-31
    modified2017-01-27
    plugin id96826
    published2017-01-27
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/96826
    titleRHEL 6 : chromium-browser (RHSA-2017:0206)
  • NASL familyWindows
    NASL idGOOGLE_CHROME_56_0_2924_76.NASL
    descriptionThe version of Google Chrome installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 56.0.2924.76. It is, therefore, affected by the following vulnerabilities : - A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in the Document::shutdown() function in dom/Document.cpp due to a failure to clear the owner
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id96828
    published2017-01-27
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/96828
    titleGoogle Chrome < 56.0.2924.76 Multiple Vulnerabilities
  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2017-58CDE32413.NASL
    descriptionThis update updates QtWebEngine to the 5.9.0 release. QtWebEngine 5.9.0 is part of the Qt 5.9.0 release, but only the QtWebEngine component is included in this update. The update fixes the following security issues in QtWebEngine 5.8.0: CVE-2017-5006, CVE-2017-5007, CVE-2017-5008, CVE-2017-5009, CVE-2017-5010, CVE-2017-5011, CVE-2017-5012, CVE-2017-5013, CVE-2017-5014, CVE-2017-5015, CVE-2017-5016, CVE-2017-5017, CVE-2017-5018, CVE-2017-5019, CVE-2017-5020, CVE-2017-5021, CVE-2017-5022, CVE-2017-5023, CVE-2017-5024, CVE-2017-5025, CVE-2017-5026, CVE-2017-5027, CVE-2017-5029, CVE-2017-5032, CVE-2017-5033, CVE-2017-5034, CVE-2017-5036, CVE-2017-5039, CVE-2017-5040, CVE-2017-5044, CVE-2017-5045, CVE-2017-5046, CVE-2017-5052, CVE-2017-5053, CVE-2017-5055, CVE-2017-5057, CVE-2017-5058, CVE-2017-5059, CVE-2017-5060, CVE-2017-5061, CVE-2017-5062, CVE-2017-5065, CVE-2017-5066, CVE-2017-5067, CVE-2017-5068, and CVE-2017-5069. Other important changes include : - Based on Chromium 56.0.2924.122 with security fixes from Chromium up to version 58.0.3029.96. (5.8.0 was based on Chromium 53.0.2785.148 with security fixes from Chromium up to version 55.0.2883.75.) - [QTBUG-54650, QTBUG-59922] Accessibility is now disabled by default on Linux, like it is in Chrome, due to poor options for enabling it conditionally and its heavy performance impact. Set the environment variable `QTWEBENGINE_ENABLE_LINUX_ACCESSIBILITY` to enable it again. - [QTBUG-56531] Enabled `filesystem:` protocol handler. - [QTBUG-57720] Optimized incremental scene-graph rendering in particular for software rendering. - [QTBUG-60049] Enabled brotli support. - Many bug fixes, see https://code.qt.io/cgit/qt/qtwebengine.git/tree/dist/cha nges-5.9.0?h=5.9 for details. In addition, this build includes a fix for https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-61521 , a binary incompatibility in QtWebEngine 5.9.0 compared to 5.8.0. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-06-05
    modified2017-07-13
    plugin id101504
    published2017-07-13
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/101504
    titleFedora 25 : qt5-qtwebengine (2017-58cde32413)
  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idOPENSUSE-2017-273.NASL
    descriptionGoogle chromium was updated to 56.0.2924.87 : - Various small fixes - Disabled option to enable/disable plugins in the chrome://plugins - Changed the build requirement of libavformat to library version 57.41.100, as included in ffmpeg 3.1.1, as only this version properly supports the public AVStream API
    last seen2020-06-05
    modified2017-02-22
    plugin id97313
    published2017-02-22
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/97313
    titleopenSUSE Security Update : chromium (openSUSE-2017-273)
  • NASL familyMacOS X Local Security Checks
    NASL idMACOS_GOOGLE_CHROME_56_0_2924_76.NASL
    descriptionThe version of Google Chrome installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is prior to 56.0.2924.76. It is, therefore, affected by the following vulnerabilities : - A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in the Document::shutdown() function in dom/Document.cpp due to a failure to clear the owner
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id96829
    published2017-01-27
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/96829
    titleGoogle Chrome < 56.0.2924.76 Multiple Vulnerabilities (macOS)

Redhat

advisories
rhsa
idRHSA-2017:0206
rpms
  • chromium-browser-0:56.0.2924.76-1.el6
  • chromium-browser-debuginfo-0:56.0.2924.76-1.el6