Insufficient Sanitization of DevTools URLs in Google Chrome for Windows Allows Remote Filesystem Reading via Malicious Extension

CVE-2017-5011 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Google Chrome prior to 56.0.2924.76 for Windows insufficiently sanitized DevTools URLs, which allowed a remote attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to read filesystem contents via a crafted HTML page.

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