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CVE-2020-6482 json

Insufficient policy enforcement in developer tools in Google Chrome prior to 83.0.4103.61 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to insta…

published 6y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2020-27632

cvss
6.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.3%
EPSS 1.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 71%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Insufficient policy enforcement in developer tools in Google Chrome prior to 83.0.4103.61 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to bypass navigation restrictions via a crafted Chrome Extension.

Patch / fix

  • Google Chrome 83.0.4103.61
  • chromium Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 83.0.4103.83-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2020-6482

  • chromium-browser Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 84.0.4147.105-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
  • chromium-browser Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 83.0.4103.61-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2020-6482

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • chromium-browser RHEL 6 EXTRAS 83.0.4103.97-1.el6_10

red hat advisories RHSA-2020:2544

  • chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 93.0.4577.82-1.1
  • chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 113.0.5672.92-1.1
  • chromium Package Hub 15 SP1 83.0.4103.97-bp151.3.85.1
  • chromium openSUSE Leap 15.1 83.0.4103.97-lp151.2.96.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10681-1openSUSE-SU-2024:12948-1openSUSE-SU-2020:0832-1openSUSE-SU-2020:0823-1

  • chromium Arch Linux 83.0.4103.61-1

arch linux advisories AVG-1167

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Vendor advisories

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red hat product security vex CVE-2020-6482 updated cvss 6.5

chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in developer tools

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 83.0.4103.97-1.el6_10 Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 83.0.4103.97-1.el6_10 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 83.0.4103.97-1.el6_10 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 83.0.4103.97-1.el6_10
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2020:2544

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.34% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 71% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • crbug.com https://crbug.com/795595 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected products

  • Google Chrome

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-276 Incorrect Default Permissions
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References

Sources

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