CVE-2020-6471: Debian Linux

Critical severity, CVSS 9.6. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Insufficient policy enforcement in developer tools in Google Chrome prior to 83.0.4103.61 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted Chrome Extension.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 9.0 only; version 10.0 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 31 only; version 32 only
• Google Chrome: before 83.0.4103.61 (fixed in 83.0.4103.61)
• Opensuse Backports Sle: version 15.0 only
• Opensuse Leap: version 15.1 only

Published 2020-05-21. Last modified 2026-06-17.