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CVE-2020-15959 Affecting chromium-browser package, versions <85.0.4183.121-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Ubuntu security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.65% (80th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-UBUNTU1804-CHROMIUMBROWSER-674258
  • published 11 Sep 2020
  • disclosed 21 Sep 2020
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Introduced: 11 Sep 2020

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How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:18.04 chromium-browser to version 85.0.4183.121-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream chromium-browser package and not the chromium-browser package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:18.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

Insufficient policy enforcement in networking in Google Chrome prior to 85.0.4183.102 allowed an attacker who convinced the user to enable logging to obtain potentially sensitive information from process memory via social engineering.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

4.3 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    Required
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    Low
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    None
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Red Hat

8.8 high