CVSS 3.0
8.8 highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2019-5774
High (8.8). EPSS 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 74% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-862
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- debian:debian_linux
- fedoraproject:fedora
- google:chrome
- redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop
- redhat:enterprise_linux_server
- redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106767
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0309
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2019/01/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
- https://crbug.com/904182
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JVFHYCJGMZQUKYSIE2BXE4NLEGFGUXU5/