CVE-2020-15966

high
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
8.0

Description

Insufficient policy enforcement in extensions in Google Chrome prior to 85.0.4183.121 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to obtain potentially sensitive information via a crafted Chrome Extension.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-15966

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202009-9

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed85.0.4183.121-1
debian debianbookwormfixed87.0.4280.88-0.1
debian debianbullseyefixed87.0.4280.88-0.1
debian debianforkyfixed87.0.4280.88-0.1
debian debiansidfixed87.0.4280.88-0.1
debian debiantrixiefixed87.0.4280.88-0.1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.