CVE-2020-6402 Code injection in Chrome
An attacker can execute arbitrary code on OS X by tricking a user into installing a malicious Chrome extension due to insufficient policy enforcement.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2020-6402?
CVE-2020-6402 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 11 Feb 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 OS X prior to 80.0.3987.87 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Chrome Extension.
Weakness: CWE-20
Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-6402?
It affects 8 products.
Products include Debian Debian Linux, Fedoraproject Fedora, Google Chrome, Opensuse Backports Sle, Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop, Redhat Enterprise Linux Server and 2 more.
How do I fix CVE-2020-6402?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.
Is CVE-2020-6402 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-6402 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Debian Debian Linux
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2020-6402, GHSA-fwmh-3hqg-2774, UBUNTU-CVE-2020-6402.