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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.7

CVE-2017-5042 json

Cast in Google Chrome prior to 57.0.2987.98 for Mac, Windows, and Linux and 57.0.2987.108 for Android sent cookies to sites discovered via…

published 2017-04-24 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-14151

cvss
5.7
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 37%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Cast in Google Chrome prior to 57.0.2987.98 for Mac, Windows, and Linux and 57.0.2987.108 for Android sent cookies to sites discovered via SSDP, which allowed an attacker on the local network segment to initiate connections to arbitrary URLs and observe any plaintext cookies sent.

Patch / fix

  • chromium-browser Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 58.0.3029.81-0ubuntu0.14.04.1172
  • chromium-browser Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 57.0.2987.98-0ubuntu0.16.04.1276

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2017-5042

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • chromium-browser RHEL 6 EXTRAS 57.0.2987.98-1.el6

red hat advisories RHSA-2017:0499

  • chromium Package Hub 12 SP2 57.0.2987.98-8.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2017:0738-1openSUSE-SU-2017:0740-1

  • chromium Arch Linux 57.0.2987.98-1

arch linux advisories AVG-197

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-5042 updated cvss 6.5

chromium-browser: incorrect handling of cookies in cast

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 57.0.2987.98-1.el6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 57.0.2987.98-1.el6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 57.0.2987.98-1.el6
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:0499

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.43% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 37% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 3.3 AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected products

  • n/a Google Chrome prior to 57.0.2987.98 for Mac, Windows and Linux, and 57.0.2987.108 for Android

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-311 Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data
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References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.