CVE-2020-6518

high-risk

Published 2020-07-22

Use after free in developer tools in Google Chrome prior to 84.0.4147.89 allowed a remote attacker who had convinced the user to use developer tools to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

Do I need to act?

3.2% chance of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS score — moderate 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 (7)

Chrome

Debian Linux

Fedora

Leap

Backports Sle

Affected Vendors

Debian Google Fedoraproject Opensuse

References (22)

Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00069.html

Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00007.html

Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00018.html

Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00041.html

Release Notes https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/07/stable-channel-update-for-desktop....

Vendor Advisory https://crbug.com/986051

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

Third Party Advisory https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-08

Third Party Advisory https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-30

Third Party Advisory https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4824

Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00069.html

Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00007.html

Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00018.html

Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00041.html

Release Notes https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/07/stable-channel-update-for-desktop....

Vendor Advisory https://crbug.com/986051

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

Third Party Advisory https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-08

and 2 more references

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high-risk

Severity 30/34 · Critical

Exploitability 6/34 · Minimal

Exposure 14/34 · Moderate