CVE-2020-6572 — Google Chrome Media Use-After-Free Vulnerability

provenance: imported · CVE: CVE-2020-6572 · CWE: CWE-416

CVE-2020-6572: Google Chrome Media Use-After-Free Vulnerability

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV)


Vendor / project	Google
Product	Chrome Media
Date added	2022-01-10
Due date	2022-07-10
Ransomware campaign use	Unknown

Description

Google Chrome Media contains a use-after-free vulnerability that allows a remote attacker to execute code via a crafted HTML page.

Required action (CISA)

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Notes

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-6572

Weakness behind it

CISA records this vulnerability as an instance of CWE-416. From there the chain continues into CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques, all inside this corpus.

References

NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-6572
KEV catalog: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog

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