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CVE-2017-5015

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-5015 describes a domain spoofing vulnerability in Google Chrome versions prior to 56.0.2924.76 (Linux, Windows, Mac) and 56.0.2924.87 (Android). This medium-severity flaw (CVSS 6.5) allowed remote attackers to trick users by displaying deceptive domain names through the incorrect handling of Unicode IDN homographs, requiring user interaction to be exploited. While there is no known active exploitation or public exploit code, the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness within the cybersecurity community.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 55.0.2883.87CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.34%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
68.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0134 is in the 81st percentile among its peer group of 26,221 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 SupplementaryFixed in: chromium-browser-0:56.0.2924.76-1.el6
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2017-5015Moderate

chromium-browser: address spoofing in omnibox

Jan 25, 2017

References

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017-0206.html
chromereleases.googleblog.com / 2017/01/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
crbug.com / 673971
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201701-66
debian.org / security/2017/dsa-3776
securityfocus.com / bid/95792
securitytracker.com / id/1037718