CVE-2020-6438: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 9.0 only; version 10.0 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 30 only; version 31 only; version 32 only
• Google Chrome: before 81.0.4044.92 (fixed in 81.0.4044.92)
• Opensuse Backports Sle: version 15.0 only
• Opensuse Leap: version 15.1 only

Published 2020-04-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.