CVE-2019-13709 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting Google Chrome versions prior to 78.0.3904.70, as well as related Google and openSUSE products. It stems from insufficient policy enforcement in downloads, allowing a remote attacker to bypass download restrictions through a crafted HTML page. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.5, indicating it can be exploited over the network with low attack complexity, requiring user interaction, and leading to high integrity impact without affecting confidentiality or availability. While there is no evidence of active exploitation, no public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and it is not on the KEV catalog, it has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 78.0.3904.70CPE match | cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
15.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:opensuse:backports_sle:15.0:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.