Medium severity · published Sep 21, 2020
CVE-2020-15959
Insufficient policy enforcement in networking in Google Chrome prior to 85.0.4183.102 allowed an attacker who convinced the user to enable logging to obtain potentially sensitive…
4.3
CVSS
1.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Insufficient policy enforcement in networking in Google Chrome prior to 85.0.4183.102 allowed an attacker who convinced the user to enable logging to obtain potentially sensitive information from process memory via social engineering.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.2% · higher than 69% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
CH
Chrome · Google
before 85.0.4183.102 · source: NVD
BS
Backports Sle · Opensuse
15.0; 15.0 · source: NVD
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
10.0 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
31; 33 · source: NVD
LE
Leap · Opensuse
15.1; 15.2 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-15959
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-15959
Mailing List
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00072.html
Mailing List
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00078.html
Mailing List
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00081.html
Mailing List
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00049.html
Release Notes
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/09/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
Permissions Required
https://crbug.com/1122684
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