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CVE-2020-16027

Publication date 8 January 2021

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

Insufficient policy enforcement in developer tools in Google Chrome prior to 87.0.4280.66 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to obtain potentially sensitive information from the user's disk via a crafted Chrome Extension.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
chromium-browser 20.10 groovy
Not affected
20.04 LTS focal
Not affected
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 87.0.4280.66-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 87.0.4280.66-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release

Notes

alexmurray

The Debian chromium source package is called chromium-browser in Ubuntu

mdeslaur

starting with Ubuntu 19.10, the chromium-browser package is just a script that installs the Chromium snap

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.5 · Medium
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact None
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N