Use after free in payments in Google Chrome on MacOS prior to 83.0.4103.97 allowed a remote attacker to potentially perform a sandbox escap…

published 2020-06-03 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2020-27646

cvss: 8.8; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 1.4%; EPSS 1.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 72%
public exploits: 0; none known

Use after free in payments in Google Chrome on MacOS prior to 83.0.4103.97 allowed a remote attacker to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted HTML page.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1 distros 4

Google Chrome 83.0.4103.97

debian red hat opensuse arch linux

chromium Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 83.0.4103.106-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2020-6496

chromium-browser RHEL 6 EXTRAS 83.0.4103.97-1.el6_10

red hat advisories RHSA-2020:2544

chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 93.0.4577.82-1.1
chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 113.0.5672.92-1.1
chromium Package Hub 15 SP1 83.0.4103.97-bp151.3.85.1
chromium openSUSE Leap 15.1 83.0.4103.97-lp151.2.96.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10681-1 openSUSE-SU-2024:12948-1 openSUSE-SU-2020:0832-1 openSUSE-SU-2020:0823-1

chromium Arch Linux 83.0.4103.97-1

arch linux advisories AVG-1178

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2020-6496 updated 2026-06-28 cvss 8.8

chromium-browser: Use after free in payments

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 83.0.4103.97-1.el6_10 Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 83.0.4103.97-1.el6_10 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 83.0.4103.97-1.el6_10 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 83.0.4103.97-1.el6_10
fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2020:2544

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Exploit prediction

1.40% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 72% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.1	8.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	2.0	6.8	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

Google Chrome

Classification

Weakness

CWE-416 Use After Free

Technology feeds

Google Chrome rss critical rss

References

security.gentoo.org /glsa/202006-02
vendor-advisory, third-party-advisory
lists.opensuse.org /opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00034.html
vendor-advisory, mailing-list, third-party-advisory
lists.opensuse.org /opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00038.html
vendor-advisory, mailing-list, third-party-advisory
debian.org /security/2020/dsa-4714
vendor-advisory, third-party-advisory
chromereleases.googleblog.com /2020/06/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
vendor-advisory
crbug.com /1085990
permissions-required

Sources

CVE List CVE-2020-6496
NVD CVE-2020-6496

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Summary