vulnerability

Google Chrome Vulnerability: CVE-2020-6438 Insufficient policy enforcement in extensions

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Apr 13, 2020
Added
Apr 16, 2020
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

Insufficient policy enforcement 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 from process memory via a crafted Chrome Extension.

Solution

google-chrome-upgrade-latest
Title
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