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CVE-2020-15959

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2020-09-21 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

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.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 10.0
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 31, 33
• Google Chrome: before 85.0.4183.102 — fixed in 85.0.4183.102
• openSUSE Backports Sle: 15.0-sp1, 15.0-sp2
• openSUSE Leap: 15.1, 15.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Google Chrome 85.0.4183.102. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00072.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00078.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00081.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00049.html
• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/09/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
• https://crbug.com/1122684
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FN7HZIGAOCZKBT4LV363BCPRA5FLY25I/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GNIYFJST4TFJYFZ27VODBOINCLBGULTD/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-30
• https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4824
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00072.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00078.html

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