CVE-2020-6513 is a high-severity heap buffer overflow vulnerability in PDFium, affecting Google Chrome and related products like Debian and Fedora. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted PDF file, potentially leading to heap corruption and arbitrary code execution. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 8.8, indicating a low attack complexity and high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no known active exploitation or public exploit code, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, suggesting awareness among security researchers.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 84.0.4147.89CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
15.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:opensuse:backports_sle:15.0:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
15.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:opensuse:backports_sle:15.0:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
15.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
15.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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.