CVE-2017-5020

Publication date 17 February 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.1 · Medium

Score breakdown

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
chromium-browser 17.04 zesty
Fixed 56.0.2924.76-0ubuntu2.1343
16.10 yakkety
Fixed 56.0.2924.76-0ubuntu0.16.10.1335
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 56.0.2924.76-0ubuntu0.16.04.1268
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 58.0.3029.81-0ubuntu0.14.04.1172
12.04 LTS precise Ignored
oxide-qt 17.04 zesty
Not affected
16.10 yakkety
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
12.04 LTS precise Not in release

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 6.1 · Medium

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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