Vulnerability · Published Sep 21, 2020 · Assigned by Chrome
CVE-2020-6546
High 7.8
In plain English
A high-severity security flaw in Chrome from Google. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 10% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS NVD)7.8High
Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 89.7% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
Inappropriate implementation in installer in Google Chrome prior to 84.0.4147.125 allowed a local attacker to potentially elevate privilege via a crafted filesystem.
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/08/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html x_refsource_MISC
- https://crbug.com/1100280 x_refsource_MISC
- FEDORA-2020-6da740d38c vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA
- DSA-4824 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN