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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2020-6408

Medium
6.5/10

Summary

Insufficient policy enforcement in CORS in Google Chrome prior to 80.0.3987.87 allowed a local attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information via a crafted HTML page.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • NONE

CWE-200 - Information Exposure

An information exposure vulnerability is categorized as an information flow (IF) weakness, which can potentially allow unauthorized access to otherwise classified information in the application, such as confidential personal information (demographics, financials, health records, etc.), business secrets, and the application's internal environment.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published