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CVE-2020-6451

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-6451 is a use-after-free vulnerability in Google Chrome's WebAudio component, affecting versions prior to 80.0.3987.162, as well as Fedora and OpenSUSE. With a CVSS score of 8.8 (HIGH), it allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to achieve heap corruption and potentially execute arbitrary code by enticing a user to visit a crafted HTML page. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness within the security community.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 80.0.3987.162CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
30CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:30:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
31CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:31:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
15.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:opensuse:backports_sle:15.0:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
15.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.45%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
70.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0145 is in the 69th 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-0:80.0.3987.162-1.el6_10
View patch
googlevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2020-6451Important

chromium-browser: Use after free in WebAudio

Mar 31, 2020

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00024.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00031.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
chromereleases.googleblog.com / 2020/03/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_31.html
Release NotesVendor Advisory
crbug.com / 1061018
Issue TrackingPatchVendor Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JMXT4OKBMCJSNSX7TZDBJNY6ORKFZRFO
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JQTV7EFWQKF6VJBCVH4PUQJLGO7ISLTN