CVE-2020-15973

MEDIUM

Google Chrome <86.0.4240.75 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Insufficient policy enforcement in extensions in Google Chrome prior to 86.0.4240.75 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to bypass same origin policy via a crafted Chrome Extension.

References (7)

Core 7
Core References
Permissions Required, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://crbug.com/1106890
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00016.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4824

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0082
EPSS Percentile 74.6%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Details

Status published
Products (6)
debian/debian_linux 10.0
fedoraproject/fedora 31
fedoraproject/fedora 32
fedoraproject/fedora 33
google/chrome < 86.0.4240.75
opensuse/backports_sle 15.0 sp2
Published Nov 03, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026