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CVE-2020-6471

critical

Description

Insufficient policy enforcement in developer tools in Google Chrome prior to 83.0.4103.61 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted Chrome Extension.

References

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

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-30

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-02

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WLFZ5N4EK6I4ZJP5YSKLLVN3ELXEB4XT/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OQYH5OK7O4BU6E37WWG5SEEHV65BFSGR/

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00038.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00034.html

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2020-27621

https://crbug.com/1059577

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/05/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_19.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-05-21

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.6

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.014