CVE-2020-6438

chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in extensions

Severity Score

4.3

*CVSS v3.1

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

Insufficient policy enforcement in extensions in Google Chrome prior to 81.0.4044.92 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to obtain potentially sensitive information from process memory via a crafted Chrome Extension.

Una aplicación insuficiente de la política en extensions de Google Chrome versiones anteriores a 81.0.4044.92, permitió a un atacante, que convenció a un usuario para instalar una extensión maliciosa, obtener información potencialmente confidencial desde la memoria del proceso por medio de una Extensión de Chrome diseñada.

*Credits: N/A

CVSS Scores

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

Low

Integrity

None

Availability

None

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

Low

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Medium

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

Partial

Integrity

None

Availability

None

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2020-01-08 CVE Reserved
2020-04-13 CVE Published
2024-08-04 CVE Updated
2024-08-04 First Exploit
2024-08-07 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date

CWE

CWE-209: Generation of Error Message Containing Sensitive Information

CAPEC

References (10)

URL	Tag	Source

URL	Date	SRC
https://crbug.com/714617	2024-08-04

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00024.html	2023-11-07
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00031.html	2023-11-07
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/04/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_7.html	2023-11-07
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6XWIVVYIQU67QR2LHNGGZBS4FZOW2RQO	2023-11-07
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HFVP775RPRDVY5FUCN7ABH5AE74TQFDD	2023-11-07
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XMXPDHEEACPD3BCMTC26SCCYB2ZMUOAO	2023-11-07
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4714	2023-11-07
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-6438	2020-04-16
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1822615	2020-04-16

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Google Search vendor "Google"		Chrome Search vendor "Google" for product "Chrome"				< 81.0.4044.92 Search vendor "Google" for product "Chrome" and version " < 81.0.4044.92"		-		Affected
Debian Search vendor "Debian"		Debian Linux Search vendor "Debian" for product "Debian Linux"				9.0 Search vendor "Debian" for product "Debian Linux" and version "9.0"		-		Affected
Debian Search vendor "Debian"		Debian Linux Search vendor "Debian" for product "Debian Linux"				10.0 Search vendor "Debian" for product "Debian Linux" and version "10.0"		-		Affected
Fedoraproject Search vendor "Fedoraproject"		Fedora Search vendor "Fedoraproject" for product "Fedora"				30 Search vendor "Fedoraproject" for product "Fedora" and version "30"		-		Affected
Fedoraproject Search vendor "Fedoraproject"		Fedora Search vendor "Fedoraproject" for product "Fedora"				31 Search vendor "Fedoraproject" for product "Fedora" and version "31"		-		Affected
Fedoraproject Search vendor "Fedoraproject"		Fedora Search vendor "Fedoraproject" for product "Fedora"				32 Search vendor "Fedoraproject" for product "Fedora" and version "32"		-		Affected
Opensuse Search vendor "Opensuse"		Backports Sle Search vendor "Opensuse" for product "Backports Sle"				15.0 Search vendor "Opensuse" for product "Backports Sle" and version "15.0"		sp1		Affected
Opensuse Search vendor "Opensuse"		Leap Search vendor "Opensuse" for product "Leap"				15.1 Search vendor "Opensuse" for product "Leap" and version "15.1"		-		Affected