CVE-2020-6477 Privilege escalation in Chrome

What is CVE-2020-6477?

CVE-2020-6477 is a high-severity vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 21 May 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Inappropriate implementation in installer in Google Chrome on OS X prior to 83.0.4103.61 allowed a local attacker to perform privilege escalation via a crafted file.

Weakness: CWE-59

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-6477?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Google Chrome, Opensuse Backports Sle, Opensuse Leap.

How do I fix CVE-2020-6477?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2020-6477 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-6477 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 GHSA-4q6x-94h2-2575, UBUNTU-CVE-2020-6477.