Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting chromium package, versions [,86.0.4240.75)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.91% (83rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CHROMIUM-2410219
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed3 Nov 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 3 Nov 2020

CVE-2020-15988  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade chromium to version 86.0.4240.75 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution. 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.

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