CVE-2020-6438 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2020-6438 at MITRE

Description

Insufficient policy enforcement in extensions in Google Chrome prior to 81.0.4044.92 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to obtain potentially sensitive information from process memory via a crafted Chrome Extension.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	4.3
Vector	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Medium
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	None

CVSS v3 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	4.3
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Attack Vector	Network
Attack Complexity	Low
Privileges Required	None
User Interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact	Low
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	None
CVSSv3 Version	3.1

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1168911 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

openSUSE-SU-2020:0519-1, published Thu Dec 7 12:55:39 2023
openSUSE-SU-2020:0540-1, published Thu Dec 7 12:55:39 2023

List of released packages

Product(s)	Fixed package version(s)	References
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP1	`chromedriver >= 81.0.4044.92-bp151.3.66.1` `chromium >= 81.0.4044.92-bp151.3.66.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE-2020-540
openSUSE Leap 15.1	`chromedriver >= 81.0.4044.92-lp151.2.77.1` `chromium >= 81.0.4044.92-lp151.2.77.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE-2020-519
openSUSE Leap 15.2	`chromium >= 83.0.4103.97-lp152.1.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE Leap 15.2 GA chromium-83.0.4103.97-lp152.1.1
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

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Apr 7 22:25:07 2020
CVE page last modified: Sat Nov 1 21:48:05 2025