Security Advisory

CVE-2019-5774

8.8
HIGH

Vulnerability 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.
Published Date February 19, 2019
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory