HIGH
chromium-browser: Heap buffer overflow in Skia
Published Sep 21, 2020
8.8
HIGHCVSS 3.1
EPSS 1.50%
Description
Buffer overflow in Skia in Google Chrome prior to 84.0.4147.105 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.
Affected products
-
- Version unspecifiedStatusaffectedConstraints<84.0.4147.105
- Version
Configuration 2
OR
- 10.0
- 33
No data.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary
chromium-browser-0:84.0.4147.105-2.el6_10
Fixed · RHSA-2020:3377
| Product | Package | State | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary | chromium-browser-0:84.0.4147.105-2.el6_10 | Fixed | RHSA-2020:3377 |
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
No remediation recorded yet.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
8.8 HIGH NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
User Interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact High
Integrity Impact High
Availability Impact High
No CVSS v3.0 score for this CVE.
6.8 MEDIUM NVD
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
1.50% 0.01505
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 2, 2026.
EPSS probability 0.01505
Score over time
2021–2026- EPSS v1
- EPSS v5
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
Percentile over time
- EPSS v1
- EPSS v5
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
Table of values (15 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2, 2026 | 1.50% (0.01505) | 73.43th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 1.49% (0.01486) | 70.57th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Mar 29, 2025 | 2.10% (0.02105) | 73.45th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Jul 20, 2024 | 0.37% (0.00369) | 72.84th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Jul 11, 2024 | 0.37% (0.00369) | 72.80th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Feb 8, 2024 | 0.31% (0.00309) | 69.16th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Sep 3, 2023 | 0.31% (0.00309) | 66.16th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 0.27% (0.00275) | 63.06th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 1.21% (0.01213) | 66.61th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Apr 1, 2022 | 1.21% (0.01213) | 64.21th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 9.19% (0.09187) | 87.06th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 3, 2022 | 2.85% (0.02849) | 63.22th | v1 |
| Jan 6, 2022 | 2.85% (0.02849) | 62.87th | v1 |
| Jan 5, 2022 | 0.65% (0.00649) | 46.51th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Apr 14, 2021 | 0.65% (0.00649) | 0.00th | v1 |
Weaknesses (2)
References (9)
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-6540 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1861468 Issue Tracking
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/07/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_27.html x_refsource_MISCRelease NotesVendor Advisory
- https://crbug.com/1105720 x_refsource_MISCPermissions RequiredVendor Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EE7XWIZBME7JAY7N6CGPET4CLNHHEIVT/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-6540
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-30 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOThird Party Advisory
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-6540
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4824 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANThird Party Advisory
| Link | Providers | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-6540 | Vendor Advisory | |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1861468 | Issue Tracking | |
| https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/07/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_27.html | x_refsource_MISCRelease NotesVendor Advisory | |
| https://crbug.com/1105720 | x_refsource_MISCPermissions RequiredVendor Advisory | |
| https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EE7XWIZBME7JAY7N6CGPET4CLNHHEIVT/ | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA | |
| https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-6540 | ||
| https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-30 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOThird Party Advisory | |
| https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-6540 | ||
| https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4824 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANThird Party Advisory |
Change history (0)
No recorded changes yet.
Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner Chrome
Published Sep 21, 2020
Updated Aug 4, 2024
Reserved Jan 8, 2020
Link CVE-2020-6540
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a