CVE-2017-5011: Google Chrome

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Google Chrome: up to and including 55.0.2883.87

Published 2017-02-17. Last modified 2026-06-17.