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high 7.8

CVE-2020-6574 json

Insufficient policy enforcement in installer in Google Chrome on OS X prior to 85.0.4183.102 allowed a local attacker to potentially achiev…

published 6y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2020-27723

cvss
7.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 29%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Insufficient policy enforcement in installer in Google Chrome on OS X prior to 85.0.4183.102 allowed a local attacker to potentially achieve privilege escalation via a crafted binary.

Patch / fix

  • Google Chrome 85.0.4183.102
  • chromium-browser Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 85.0.4183.121-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
  • chromium-browser Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 85.0.4183.121-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2020-6574

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 85.0.4183.102-1.el6_10

red hat advisories RHSA-2020:3740

  • chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 93.0.4577.82-1.1
  • chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 113.0.5672.92-1.1
  • opera openSUSE Leap 15.2 NonFree, openSUSE Leap 15.1 NonFree 71.0.3770.228-lp152.2.18.1
  • chromium Package Hub 15 SP1 85.0.4183.102-bp151.3.107.1
  • chromium Package Hub 15 SP2 85.0.4183.102-bp152.2.20.1
  • chromium openSUSE Leap 15.2, openSUSE Leap 15.1 85.0.4183.102-lp152.2.30.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10681-1openSUSE-SU-2024:12948-1openSUSE-SU-2020:1713-1openSUSE-SU-2020:1514-1openSUSE-SU-2020:1510-1openSUSE-SU-2020:1499-1

  • chromium Arch Linux 85.0.4183.102-1

arch linux advisories AVG-1225

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Vendor advisories

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red hat product security vex CVE-2020-6574 updated cvss 7.8

chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in installer

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 85.0.4183.102-1.el6_10 Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 85.0.4183.102-1.el6_10 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 85.0.4183.102-1.el6_10 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 85.0.4183.102-1.el6_10
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2020:3740

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

0.36% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 29% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.6 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

  • Google Chrome

Classification

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References

Sources

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