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CVE-2020-15988

Published: 3 November 2020

Insufficient policy enforcement in downloads in Google Chrome on Windows prior to 86.0.4240.75 allowed a remote attacker who convinced the user to open files to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML page.

Notes

AuthorNote
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

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.3

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
chromium-browser
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic
Released (86.0.4240.75-0ubuntu0.18.04.1)
focal Not vulnerable
(code not present)
trusty Does not exist

upstream
Released (86.0.4240.75)
xenial
Released (86.0.4240.75-0ubuntu0.16.04.1)

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.3
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Low
Integrity impact Low
Availability impact Low
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L