Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution via Unrestricted Download Operations in Google Chrome

CVE-2017-5020 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

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.

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