High severity · published Mar 23, 2020
CVE-2020-6427
Use after free in audio in Google Chrome prior to 80.0.3987.149 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page
8.8
CVSS
2.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Use after free in audio in Google Chrome prior to 80.0.3987.149 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.4% · higher than 84% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
CH
Chrome · Google
before 80.0.3987.149 · source: NVD
BS
Backports Sle · Opensuse
15.0 · source: NVD
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
9.0; 10.0 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
30; 31; 32 · source: NVD
SL
Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop · Suse
12 · source: NVD
SL
Suse Linux Enterprise Server · Suse
12 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-6427
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-6427
Mailing List
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00028.html
Mailing List
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00037.html
Vendor Advisory
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/03/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_18.html
Exploit
https://crbug.com/1055788
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2DDNOAGIX5D77TTHT6YPMVJ5WTXTCQEI/
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6IOHSO6BUKC6I66J5PZOMAGFVJ66ZS57/
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