CVE-2020-6490

Publication date 21 May 2020

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Insufficient data validation in loader in Google Chrome prior to 83.0.4103.61 allowed a remote attacker who had been able to write to disk to leak cross-origin data via a crafted HTML page.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
chromium-browser	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	19.10 eoan	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 83.0.4103.61-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 84.0.4147.105-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
	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	4.3 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	Low
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N