CVE-2020-6554 is a high-severity use-after-free vulnerability in Google Chrome versions prior to 84.0.4147.125, affecting various distributions including Debian and Fedora. This flaw allows a remote attacker to potentially achieve a sandbox escape through a specially crafted Chrome Extension. With a CVSS score of 8.6, exploitation requires user interaction (UI:R) but has low attack complexity (AC:L), leading to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:H/I:H/A:H). While there is no known public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB) and it's not in CISA's KEV catalog, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness and potential interest from threat actors.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 84.0.4147.125CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
10.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
33CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:33:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
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