CVE-2020-6461
Use after free in storage in Google Chrome prior to 81.0.4044.129 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted HTML page.
02 Description
Use after free in storage in Google Chrome prior to 81.0.4044.129 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted HTML page.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 1.20% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 67.8% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 9.6 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Important. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2020-05-21 03:46Z6 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-04 09:02Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2020-01-08
- Assigning CNA
- Chrome
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416Use After FreeVariant
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 8cc5ff26b8c0310439b9941dae8673e7decd4239fa64b99d5fe6e737007c6b1b
05 Affected products
06 References
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-202005-13https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202005-13
- crbug.comhttps://crbug.com/1072983
- chromereleases.googleblog.comhttps://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/04/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_27.html
- www.debian.orgDSA-4714https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4714
07 Fixed in
Arch Linux
- chromium Fixed in 81.0.4044.129-1
Source: Arch Linux Security Tracker, the Arch Linux security team. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 12
- chromium Fixed in 83.0.4103.83-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- chromium Fixed in 83.0.4103.83-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- chromium Fixed in 83.0.4103.83-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- chromium-browser Fixed in 81.0.4044.138-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- chromium-browser Fixed in 81.0.4044.138-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.