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CVE-2020-6513

29
FAUCET Score

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.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(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 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
2.96%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
85.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0296 is in the 85th 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-0:84.0.4147.105-2.el6_10
View patch
googlevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2020-6513Important

chromium-browser: Heap buffer overflow in PDFium

Jul 14, 2020

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00069.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00007.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00018.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00041.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
chromereleases.googleblog.com / 2020/07/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
Release NotesVendor Advisory
crbug.com / 1091404
Issue TrackingVendor Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MTRPPTKZ2RKVH2XGQCWNFZ7FOGQ5LLCA
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MYIDWCHG24ZTFD4P42D4A4WWPPA74BCG
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202007-08
Third Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202101-30
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2021/dsa-4824
Third Party Advisory
talosintelligence.com / vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2020-1092
Third Party Advisory