CVE-2020-6522

high-risk

Published 2020-07-22

Inappropriate implementation in external protocol handlers in Google Chrome prior to 84.0.4147.89 allowed a remote attacker to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted HTML page.

Do I need to act?

2.3% 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 9.6/10 Critical

NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (8)

Chrome

Backports Sle

Debian Linux

Fedora

Leap

Affected Vendors

Debian Google Fedoraproject Opensuse

References (20)

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....

Permissions Required https://crbug.com/1052093

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

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

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