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CVE-2020-15971

27
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-15971 is a use-after-free vulnerability in Google Chrome's printing component, affecting versions prior to 86.0.4240.75, as well as Debian, Fedora, and OpenSUSE. This high-severity vulnerability (CVSS 8.8) allows a remote attacker to potentially achieve a sandbox escape by compromising the renderer process and tricking a user into visiting a crafted HTML page. While the EPSS score is low and it's not in the KEV catalog, its FAUCET Risk Score is 71/100. There is no public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB) and it is not currently being actively exploited, though it has received some community discussion and media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 86.0.4240.75CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
31CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:31:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
32CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:32:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
33CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:33:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
15.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:opensuse:backports_sle:15.0:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.37%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
69.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0137 is in the 68th percentile among its peer group of 14,875 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.1 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 SupplementaryFixed in: chromium-browser-0:86.0.4240.75-1.el6_10
View patch
googlevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2020-15971Important

chromium-browser: Use after free in printing

Oct 6, 2020

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00016.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
chromereleases.googleblog.com / 2020/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
Release NotesVendor Advisory
crbug.com / 1114062
Permissions RequiredVendor Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/24QFL4C3AZKMFVL7LVSYMU2DNE5VVUGS
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4GWCWNHTTYOH6HSFUXPGPBB6J6JYZHZE
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SC3U3H6AISVZB5PLZLLNF4HMQ4UFFL7M
debian.org / security/2021/dsa-4824
Third Party Advisory