Brave Software · Report #1848062
download file type warning on Windows does not appear if "ask where to save file before downloading" setting is enabled
Validstatus
highseverity
31upvotes
10 May 2023disclosed
Summary
It was discovered that the "Ask where to save each file before downloading" setting disables the potentially-malicious file type warning for downloads in Brave. This behavior is also present in Chrome: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1410578.
How it was found
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