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Vulnerabilities / CVE-2020-15963

critical

CVE-2020-15963

chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in extensions

Published Modified
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.6CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Red Hat8.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD. Rated lower by Red Hat (high), Ubuntu (medium).

Description

Insufficient policy enforcement in extensions in Google Chrome prior to 85.0.4183.121 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted Chrome Extension.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
debian 10chromium87.0.4280.88-0.4~deb10u1
debian 11chromium87.0.4280.88-0.1
debian 12chromium87.0.4280.88-0.1
debian 13chromium87.0.4280.88-0.1
debian 14chromium87.0.4280.88-0.1
debian 9chromiumno fix listed
echochromium87.0.4280.88-0.1
ubuntu 16.04chromium-browser85.0.4183.121-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
ubuntu 18.04chromium-browser85.0.4183.121-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

References

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