Predictive Vulnerability Intelligence.

Product

  • Product
  • Pricing
  • Documentation

Company

  • About
  • Partnerships
  • Blog
  • Support

Legal

  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Data Licensing

© 2026 FAUCET Technologies LLC. All rights reserved.

CVE-2020-6401

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-6401 describes a domain spoofing vulnerability in Google Chrome (prior to version 80.0.3987.87) and related products like openSUSE Chrome. This medium-severity flaw (CVSS 6.5) stems from insufficient validation of untrusted input in the Omnibox, allowing remote attackers to trick users via crafted IDN homographs. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness within the cybersecurity landscape.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 80.0.3987.87CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
15.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:opensuse:backports_sle:15.0:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.94%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
78.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0194 is in the 89th percentile among its peer group of 26,236 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

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

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 SupplementaryFixed in: chromium-browser-0:80.0.3987.87-1.el6_10
View patch
googlevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2020-6401Moderate

chromium-browser: Insufficient validation of untrusted input in Omnibox

Feb 4, 2020

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2020-02/msg00015.html
Third Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2020-02/msg00025.html
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2020:0514
chromereleases.googleblog.com / 2020/02/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
Vendor Advisory
crbug.com / 1017707
Permissions Required
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6IOHSO6BUKC6I66J5PZOMAGFVJ66ZS57
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/X3B5RWJQD5LA45MYLLR55KZJOJ5NVZGP
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202003-08
debian.org / security/2020/dsa-4638