CVE-2020-6489

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2020-05-21 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

Inappropriate implementation in developer tools in Google Chrome prior to 83.0.4103.61 allowed a remote attacker who had convinced the user to take certain actions in developer tools to obtain potentially sensitive information from disk via a crafted HTML page.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 9.0, 10.0
Fedoraproject Fedora: 31, 32
Google Chrome: before 83.0.4103.61 — fixed in 83.0.4103.61
openSUSE Backports Sle: 15.0-sp1
openSUSE Leap: 15.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Google Chrome 83.0.4103.61. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00034.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00038.html
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/05/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_19.html
https://crbug.com/1050756
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OQYH5OK7O4BU6E37WWG5SEEHV65BFSGR/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WLFZ5N4EK6I4ZJP5YSKLLVN3ELXEB4XT/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-02
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-30
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4714
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00034.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00038.html
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/05/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_19.html

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