A vulnerability was found in Google Chrome (Web Browser). It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code block of the component Loader. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a exposure of resource vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-668. The product exposes a resource to the wrong control sphere, providing unintended actors with inappropriate access to the resource. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Insufficient data validation in loader in Google Chrome prior to 83.0.4103.61 allowed a remote attacker who had been able to write to disk to leak cross-origin data via a crafted HTML page.

The weakness was published 05/19/2020 as Stable Channel Update for Desktop, May 2020 as confirmed blog post (Website). The advisory is available at chromereleases.googleblog.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2020-6490. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 05/21/2020). It is expected to see the exploit prices for this product increasing in the near future.

Upgrading to version 83.0.4103.61 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

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