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.
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2019/01/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4395
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0309
Source: MITRE
Published: 2019-02-19
Updated: 2021-07-21
Type: CWE-20
Base Score: 6.8
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Impact Score: 6.4
Exploitability Score: 8.6
Severity: MEDIUM
Base Score: 8.8
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Impact Score: 5.9
Exploitability Score: 2.8
Severity: HIGH