CVE-2020-6506
Insufficient policy enforcement in WebView in Google Chrome on Android prior to 83.0.4103.106 allowed a remote attacker to bypass site isolation via a crafted HTML page.
02 Description
Insufficient policy enforcement in WebView in Google Chrome on Android prior to 83.0.4103.106 allowed a remote attacker to bypass site isolation 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
- 3.71% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 89.3% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 6.5 (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:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- 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
- 2020-07-22 16:15Z6 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-358Improperly Implemented Security Check for StandardBase
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 49235097d4990d4825b38f14912c7fd199c3423e9f93ed8efd5d9fa9b047169d
05 Affected products
06 References
- chromereleases.googleblog.comhttps://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/06/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_15.html
- crbug.comhttps://crbug.com/1083819
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-202007-08https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-08
- lists.apache.org[cordova-issues] 20200929 [GitHub] [cordova-docs] purplecabbage opened a new pull request #1123: Added Security Advisory CVE-2020-6506https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r1eadf38b38ee20405811958c8a01f78d6b28e058c84c9fa6c1a8663d%40%3Cissues.cordova.apache.org%3E
- lists.apache.org[cordova-issues] 20200929 [GitHub] [cordova-docs] purplecabbage merged pull request #1123: Added Security Advisory CVE-2020-6506https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r2769c33da7f7ece7e4e31837c1e1839d6657c7c13bb8d228670b8da0%40%3Cissues.cordova.apache.org%3E
- lists.apache.org[cordova-issues] 20201001 [GitHub] [cordova-docs] dpogue commented on issue #1022: Document warnings on using remote source for <content>https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r1ab80f8591d5c2147898076e3945dad1c897513630aabec556883275%40%3Cissues.cordova.apache.org%3E
- lists.apache.org[cordova-issues] 20201007 [GitHub] [cordova-plugin-inappbrowser] carlpoole opened a new pull request #792: fix(android): Add mitigation strategy for CVE-2020-6506https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rc0ebe639927fa09e222aa56bf5ad6e700218f334ecc6ba9da4397728%40%3Cissues.cordova.apache.org%3E
- lists.apache.org[cordova-issues] 20201116 [GitHub] [cordova-plugin-inappbrowser] NiklasMerz commented on pull request #792: fix(android): Add mitigation strategy for CVE-2020-6506https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ra58733fbb88d5c513b3f14a14850083d506b9129103e0ab433c3f680%40%3Cissues.cordova.apache.org%3E
- lists.apache.org[cordova-issues] 20201117 [GitHub] [cordova-plugin-inappbrowser] NiklasMerz merged pull request #792: fix(android): Add mitigation strategy for CVE-2020-6506https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rc81e12fc9287f8743d59099b1af40f968f1cfec9eac98a63c2c62c69%40%3Cissues.cordova.apache.org%3E
- lists.apache.org[cordova-commits] 20201117 [cordova-plugin-inappbrowser] branch master updated: fix(android): Add mitigation strategy for CVE-2020-6506 (#792)https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf082834ad237f78a63671aec0cef8874f9232b7614529cc3d3e304c5%40%3Ccommits.cordova.apache.org%3E
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-202101-30https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-30
07 Fixed in
Arch Linux
- chromium Fixed in 83.0.4103.106-1
Source: Arch Linux Security Tracker, the Arch Linux security team. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 12
- chromium Fixed in 83.0.4103.106-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- chromium Fixed in 83.0.4103.106-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- chromium Fixed in 83.0.4103.106-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- chromium-browser Fixed in 84.0.4147.105-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
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 84.0.4147.105-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
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.