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Status: WontFix
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Closed: Jun 2016
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This vulnerability enables to make a link which downloads a potentially malicious file without user confirmation.

Reported by karlhein...@gmail.com, Jun 25 2016

Issue description

VULNERABILITY DETAILS
This vulnerability enables us to craft a link which downloads a potentially malicious file without user confirmation.

VERSION
Chrome Version 50.0.2661.102 (64-bit)
Operating System: OS X El Capitan 10.11.5

REPRODUCTION CASE
Step 1:
Copy the share link of the malicious file from Google Drive. Example:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0ByB8ANAP9wwnYWtyREg0ZmtUd1E

Step 2: Change the "open" parameter with "uc". The resulting link is as follows
https://drive.google.com/uc?id=0ByB8ANAP9wwnYWtyREg0ZmtUd1E

Step 3: Send this link to anyone, if the victim uses Chrome and clicks on the link, the malicious file gets downloaded without his confirmation. Notice that I used a simple JS file but it could be an arbitrary executable.

Alternative link:
https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0ByB8ANAP9wwnYWtyREg0ZmtUd1E

This link represents the same problem with some additional parameters which may or may not have additional security implications in the implementation. 

 

Comment 1 by vakh@chromium.org, Jun 27 2016

Status: WontFix (was: Unconfirmed)
Thanks for reporting the issue.
The file you shared is a JS file so it is considered not dangerous.
If you try to use the same mechanism i.e. hosting on Google Drive, to link to a malicious file, Chrome does show a SafeBrowsing warning.

If you have a working example of a binary or another file that triggers SafeBrowsing warning when hosted on a website (not Google Drive) but does not trigger a warning when hosted on Google Drive, please share it here and re-open the bug.

For now, I am marking it as WontFix.

Comment 2 by vakh@chromium.org, Mar 10 2017

Labels: -Restrict-View-Google Restrict-View-SecurityTeam
For all Download Protection VRP bugs: removing label Restrict-View-Google and adding Restrict-View-SecurityTeam instead.
Project Member

Comment 3 by sheriffbot@chromium.org, Mar 11 2017

Labels: -Restrict-View-SecurityTeam allpublic
This bug has been closed for more than 14 weeks. Removing security view restrictions.

For more details visit https://www.chromium.org/issue-tracking/autotriage - Your friendly Sheriffbot

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