vulnerability

Google Chrome Vulnerability: CVE-2017-5020 Universal XSS in chrome://downloads

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Feb 17, 2017
Added
Feb 22, 2017
Modified
Aug 12, 2025

Description

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.

Solution

google-chrome-upgrade-latest
Title
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