CVE-2020-15988 Code injection in Chrome

What is CVE-2020-15988?

CVE-2020-15988 is a medium-severity code injection vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 3 Nov 2020. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

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.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-15988?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Fedoraproject Fedora, Google Chrome, Opensuse Backports Sle.

How do I fix CVE-2020-15988?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2020-15988 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-15988 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2020-15988, GHSA-5m63-cm92-r4mq, UBUNTU-CVE-2020-15988.