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CVE-2017-5061

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-5061 is a race condition vulnerability in Google Chrome versions prior to 58.0.3029.81 on Linux, Windows, and Mac, allowing a remote attacker to spoof the Omnibox (URL bar) through a specially crafted HTML page. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 5.3) requires user interaction and high attack complexity, but could lead to significant integrity impact by deceiving users about the true URL. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog and lacking public exploit intelligence like Metasploit or ExploitDB modules, it has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness of the issue.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 58.0.3029.81CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.3MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.6
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.20%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
65.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0120 is in the 78th percentile among its peer group of 707 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.2 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-0:58.0.3029.81-1.el6_9
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2017-5061Moderate

chromium-browser: url spoofing in omnibox

Apr 19, 2017

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017:1124
chromereleases.googleblog.com / 2017/04/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
crbug.com / 672847
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201705-02
securityfocus.com / bid/97939
securitytracker.com / id/1038317