CVE-2020-6428 is a high-severity use-after-free vulnerability in Google Chrome's audio component, affecting versions prior to 80.0.3987.149, as well as various Linux distributions like Debian and Fedora. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw by enticing a user to visit a specially crafted HTML page, potentially leading to heap corruption. With a CVSS score of 8.8 (HIGH), successful exploitation could result in high impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no evidence of active exploitation (KEV: No) and no public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB: None), the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness among security researchers.
| Vendor | Product | Version(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 version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.1 Security Researcher mentions.