Insufficient UI Warning of Dangerous Operations in Google Chrome - CVE-2020-6397

 

Insufficient UI Warning of Dangerous Operations in Google Chrome - CVE-2020-6397

Published: February 5, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU24960
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-6397
CWE-ID:
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.

The vulnerability exists due to incorrect implementation of UI security mechanisms in sharing component. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted website, trick the victim into visiting it and perform a spoofing attack.



Affected software

Google Chrome
Arch Linux
Gentoo Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing
Fedora
SUSE Linux
Opensuse
SUSE Package Hub for SUSE Linux Enterprise
chromium (Debian package)
www-client/chromium
www-client/google-chrome
chromium

How to mitigate CVE-2020-6397

Install updates from vendor's website.

Google Chrome - update to 80.0.3987.87
chromium (Debian package) - update to 80.0.3987.132-1~deb10u1
www-client/chromium - update to 80.0.3987.132
www-client/google-chrome - update to 80.0.3987.132
chromium - addressed in versions 80.0.3987.132-1.el8, 80.0.3987.132-1.fc30, 80.0.3987.132-1.fc31, 80.0.3987.149-1.el8, 80.0.3987.149-1.fc30, 80.0.3987.162-1.el8, 80.0.3987.163-1.el8, 81.0.4044.113-1.el8, 81.0.4044.113-2.el8, 81.0.4044.122-1.el8, 81.0.4044.138-1.el8

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