Omission of the .desktop filetype from the Safe Browsing checklist in SafeBrowsing in Google Chrome on Linux prior to 72.0.3626.81 allowed…

Description

Omission of the .desktop filetype from the Safe Browsing checklist in SafeBrowsing in Google Chrome on Linux prior to 72.0.3626.81 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to download a .desktop file to execute arbitrary code via a downloaded .desktop file.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

1.5% · top 25% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.

Weakness

• Insufficient validation of untrusted input
• CWE-862 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-862 and its CVEs

Affected products

• Google · Chrome

  • affected unspecified – < 72.0.3626.81

References (7)

• 106767 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• https://crbug.com/904182 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• RHSA-2019:0309 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• DSA-4395 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2019/01/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• FEDORA-2019-561eae4626 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
• FEDORA-2019-05a780936d (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

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Record last updated 4 Aug 2024, 20:01 UTC.