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CVE-2020-6482 (GCVE-0-2020-6482)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-05-21 03:46 – Updated: 2024-08-04 09:02
VLAI
Summary
Insufficient policy enforcement in developer tools in Google Chrome prior to 83.0.4103.61 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to bypass navigation restrictions via a crafted Chrome Extension.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • Insufficient policy enforcement
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/05/sta… x_refsource_MISC
https://crbug.com/795595 x_refsource_MISC
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-02 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4714 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-30 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Google Chrome Affected: unspecified , < 83.0.4103.61 (custom)
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