CVE-2020-6472

MEDIUM 6.5CVE-2020-6472 · Published 21/05/2020 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2020-6472 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.5) vulnerability affecting chrome (google), backports sle (opensuse).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.5%, higher than 73.8% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 83.0.4103.61 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
chrome google	`< 83.0.4103.61`	`83.0.4103.61`
backports sle opensuse	`= 15.0`	No fix yet

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 obtain potentially sensitive information from process memory or disk via a crafted Chrome Extension.

References

lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00034.html · Mailing List
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00038.html · Mailing List
chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/05/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_19.html · Release Notes
crbug.com/1064519 · Exploit
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OQYH5OK7O4BU6E37WWG5SEEHV65BFSGR
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WLFZ5N4EK6I4ZJP5YSKLLVN3ELXEB4XT
security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-02 · Third Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-30 · Third Party Advisory
debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4714 · Third Party Advisory

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