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CVE-2020-6426

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-6426 describes a heap corruption vulnerability in Google Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine, affecting versions prior to 80.0.3987.149, as well as Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, and SUSE distributions. This medium-severity flaw (CVSS 6.5) can be exploited remotely with low complexity by an unauthenticated attacker, requiring user interaction (e.g., visiting a crafted HTML page) to achieve high integrity impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there publicly available exploit modules in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, despite some community discussion and media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 80.0.3987.149CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
15.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:opensuse:backports_sle:15.0:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
12CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:suse:suse_linux_enterprise_desktop:12:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
12CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:suse:suse_linux_enterprise_server:12:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
30CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:30:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.86%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
85.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0286 is in the 93rd percentile among its peer group of 26,234 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-0:80.0.3987.149-1.el6_10
View patch
googlevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2020-6426Important

chromium-browser: Inappropriate implementation in V8

Mar 18, 2020

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00028.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00037.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
chromereleases.googleblog.com / 2020/03/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_18.html
Vendor Advisory
crbug.com / 1052647
ExploitIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2DDNOAGIX5D77TTHT6YPMVJ5WTXTCQEI
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6IOHSO6BUKC6I66J5PZOMAGFVJ66ZS57
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JWANFIR3PYAL5RJQ4AO3ZS2DYMSF2ZGZ
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202003-53
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2020/dsa-4645
Third Party Advisory