CVE-2019-5774

critical
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
9.5

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-5774

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201902-3

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed72.0.3626.81-1
debian debianbookwormfixed72.0.3626.81-1
debian debianbullseyefixed72.0.3626.81-1
debian debianforkyfixed72.0.3626.81-1
debian debiansidfixed72.0.3626.81-1
debian debiantrixiefixed72.0.3626.81-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.