CVE-2017-9045

medium

Published 2017-05-18 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

5.9

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.9

Description

The Google I/O 2017 application before 5.1.4 for Android downloads multiple .json files from http://storage.googleapis.com without SSL, which makes it easier for man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof Feed and Schedule data by creating a modified blocks_v4.json file.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

69%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
google	google_i\/o_2017	`{"endIncluding":"5.0.3"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-311

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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