Inappropriate implementation in extensions in Google Chrome prior to 81.0.4044.92 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a…

Description

Inappropriate implementation in extensions in Google Chrome prior to 81.0.4044.92 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to obtain potentially sensitive information via a crafted Chrome Extension.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

1.2% · top 32% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.

Weakness

• Inappropriate implementation

Affected products

• Google · Chrome

  • affected unspecified – < 81.0.4044.92

References (8)

• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/04/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_7.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://crbug.com/894477 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• openSUSE-SU-2020:0519 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• openSUSE-SU-2020:0540 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• FEDORA-2020-b82a634e27 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
• FEDORA-2020-0e7f1b663b (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
• FEDORA-2020-da49fbb17c (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
• DSA-4714 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 4 Aug 2024, 09:02 UTC.