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CVE-2020-6563

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.7% 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 intent handling in Google Chrome on Android prior to 85.0.4183.83 allowed a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information from disk via a crafted HTML page.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 10.0
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 33
• Google Chrome: before 85.0.4183.83 — fixed in 85.0.4183.83
• 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 85.0.4183.83. 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
• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/08/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_25.html
• https://crbug.com/1104628
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EE7XWIZBME7JAY7N6CGPET4CLNHHEIVT/
• 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
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00081.html
• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/08/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_25.html
• https://crbug.com/1104628

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