CVE-2020-6495: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Insufficient policy enforcement in developer tools in Google Chrome prior to 83.0.4103.97 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
• Google Chrome: before 83.0.4103.97 (fixed in 83.0.4103.97)
• Opensuse Backports: version sle-15 only
• Opensuse Leap: version 15.1 only

Published 2020-06-03. Last modified 2026-06-17.