CVE-2020-6454

moderate-risk

Published 2020-04-13

Use after free in extensions in Google Chrome prior to 81.0.4044.92 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted Chrome Extension.

Do I need to act?

0.79% chance of exploitation

EPSS score — low exploit probability

Not on CISA KEV list

No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA

Patch status unknown

Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance

CVSS 8.8/10 High

NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (8)

Chrome

Fedora

Debian Linux

Backports Sle

Leap

Affected Vendors

Debian Google Fedoraproject Opensuse

References (16)

Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00024.html

Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00031.html

Release Notes https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/04/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_...

Issue Tracking https://crbug.com/1019161

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedorapro...

Third Party Advisory https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4714

Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00024.html

Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00031.html

Release Notes https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/04/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_...

Issue Tracking https://crbug.com/1019161

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedorapro...

Third Party Advisory https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4714

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moderate-risk

Severity 30/34 · Critical

Exploitability 3/34 · Minimal

Exposure 14/34 · Moderate