CVE-2017-5020: Google Chrome

Medium severity, CVSS 6.1. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Google Chrome: up to and including 55.0.2883.87

Published 2017-02-17. Last modified 2026-06-17.