CVE-2017-5020 (GCVE-0-2017-5020)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-02-17 07:45 – Updated: 2024-08-05 14:47
VLAI
Summary
Google Chrome prior to 56.0.2924.76 for Linux, Windows and Mac, and 56.0.2924.87 for Android, failed to require a user gesture for powerful download operations, which allowed a remote attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML page.
Severity
6.1 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • insufficient policy enforcement
Assigner
Chrome CNA under the Google root
CNA scorecard E 43/100 over 3013 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95792 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://crbug.com/668653 x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/01/sta… x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-66 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0206.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037718 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3776 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
n/a Google Chrome prior to 56.0.2924.76 for Linux, Windows and Mac, and 56.0.2924.87 for Android Affected: Google Chrome prior to 56.0.2924.76 for Linux, Windows and Mac, and 56.0.2924.87 for Android
Date Public
2017-01-25 00:00
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    Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.