CVE-2020-15961

Upstream information

CVE-2020-15961 at MITRE

Description

Insufficient policy validation in extensions in Google Chrome prior to 85.0.4183.121 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted Chrome Extension.

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SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having critical severity.

CVSS v2 Scores

CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	6.8
Vector	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Medium
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	Partial

CVSS v3 Scores

CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	9.6
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector	Network
Attack Complexity	Low
Privileges Required	None
User Interaction	Required
Scope	Changed
Confidentiality Impact	High
Integrity Impact	High
Availability Impact	High
CVSSv3 Version	3.1

SUSE Bugzilla entries: 1176791 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 1176799 [RESOLVED / DUPLICATE]

SUSE Security Advisories:

• openSUSE-SU-2020:1527-1, published Thu Dec 7 12:55:40 2023
• openSUSE-SU-2020:1542-1, published Thu Dec 7 12:55:40 2023
• openSUSE-SU-2020:1550-1, published Thu Dec 7 12:55:40 2023
• openSUSE-SU-2020:1713-1, published Thu Dec 7 12:55:41 2023

List of released packages

Product(s)	Fixed package version(s)	References
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP1	chromedriver >= 85.0.4183.121-bp151.3.110.1 chromium >= 85.0.4183.121-bp151.3.110.1	Patchnames: openSUSE-2020-1542
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP2	chromedriver >= 85.0.4183.121-bp152.2.23.1 chromium >= 85.0.4183.121-bp152.2.23.1	Patchnames: openSUSE-2020-1550
openSUSE Leap 15.1	chromedriver >= 85.0.4183.121-lp151.2.136.1 chromium >= 85.0.4183.121-lp151.2.136.1	Patchnames: openSUSE-2020-1527
openSUSE Leap 15.1 NonFree	opera >= 71.0.3770.228-lp151.2.30.1	Patchnames: openSUSE-2020-1713
openSUSE Leap 15.2	chromedriver >= 85.0.4183.121-lp152.2.33.1 chromium >= 85.0.4183.121-lp152.2.33.1	Patchnames: openSUSE-2020-1527
openSUSE Leap 15.2 NonFree	opera >= 71.0.3770.228-lp152.2.18.1	Patchnames: openSUSE-2020-1713
openSUSE Leap 15.3	chromium >= 90.0.4430.212-bp153.1.1	Patchnames: openSUSE Leap 15.3 GA chromium-90.0.4430.212-bp153.1.1
openSUSE Leap 15.4	chromium >= 101.0.4951.64-bp154.1.2	Patchnames: openSUSE Leap 15.4 GA chromium-101.0.4951.64-bp154.1.2
openSUSE Tumbleweed	chromedriver >= 93.0.4577.82-1.1 chromium >= 93.0.4577.82-1.1 ungoogled-chromium >= 113.0.5672.92-1.1 ungoogled-chromium-chromedriver >= 113.0.5672.92-1.1	Patchnames: openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2024-10681 openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2024-12948

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Sep 22 05:51:04 2020
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 19:26:06 2025