CVE-2017-5066

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Published 2017-10-27 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS v2
4.3
VIR risk
6.5

Description

Insufficient consistency checks in signature handling in the networking stack in Google Chrome prior to 58.0.3029.81 for Mac, Windows, and Linux, and 58.0.3029.83 for Android, allowed a remote attacker to incorrectly accept a badly formed X.509 certificate via a crafted HTML page.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201704-5

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed58.0.3029.81-1
redhat rhel6.0affected
linux linux-kernel-not-affected
macos macos-not-affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
gcp googlechrome{"endExcluding":"58.0.3029.81"}58.0.3029.81

References

CWEs

CWE-347

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.