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CVE-2020-6488

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-6488 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting Google Chrome prior to version 83.0.4103.61, as well as distributions like Debian, Fedora, and OpenSUSE. It involves insufficient policy enforcement in downloads, allowing a remote attacker to bypass navigation restrictions through a specially crafted HTML page. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3, indicating a low impact on integrity and no impact on confidentiality or availability, requiring user interaction for exploitation. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or inclusion in CISA's KEV catalog, though it has garnered some community discussion and media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 83.0.4103.61CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
15.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:opensuse:backports_sle:15.0:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
31CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:31:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

4.3MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.54%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
72.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0154 is in the 85th percentile among its peer group of 26,236 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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-0:83.0.4103.97-1.el6_10
View patch
googlevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2020-6488Low

chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in downloads

May 19, 2020

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00034.html
Third Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00038.html
Third Party Advisory
chromereleases.googleblog.com / 2020/05/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_19.html
Release NotesVendor Advisory
crbug.com / 1044277
ExploitVendor Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OQYH5OK7O4BU6E37WWG5SEEHV65BFSGR
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WLFZ5N4EK6I4ZJP5YSKLLVN3ELXEB4XT
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202006-02
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2020/dsa-4714
Third Party Advisory