CVE-2020-15963

CRITICALNVD 9.69.6
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.

This critical-severity CVE scores 9.6 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit probability: 1.5% (74th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs). No GitHub Security Advisory CVSS is on record for this CVE.

Triggered by: Headline CVSS from NVD CVSS v3
Sources: EPSS, NVD CVSS v3

Also known asEUVD-2020-7934 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-r73h-rm5p-mq5f (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

9.6EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 1.5%CVSS: 9.6Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

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 potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted Chrome Extension.

CVSS v3
9.6
EG Score
9.6CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
44
EG Risk 44/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity96% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.6 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation1.5% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's BOD 26-04 default: no one has published Automatable for this CVE, and CISA treats it as “no” for a CVE not in KEV.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation none (no CISA value, KEV listing or exploit code on record) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). EchelonGraph holds no SSVC assessment of this CVE from CISA: none of these inputs is from Vulnrichment. EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
EPSS PROB
1.5%
EPSS %ILE
74th
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.6): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.6 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
9.6 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.NVD CVSS v3 · CVSS v3.0 or v3.1
EG Likelihood
1.5% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-12). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.

Exploitation none (no CISA value, KEV listing or exploit code on record) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). EchelonGraph holds no SSVC assessment of this CVE from CISA: none of these inputs is from Vulnrichment. EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). Where an input reads “CISA's BOD 26-04 default”, no one has published it for this CVE, and CISA's implementation guidance says: “If “Automatable” and “Technical Impact” information items about a CVE ID are not available and the CVE ID is not in the KEV Catalog, CISA will treat its values as “no” and “total,” respectively, until CISA or a third party provides metadata about the CVE ID. CISA will always provide the Vulnrichment data for a CVE ID listed in the KEV Catalog.” Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

September 21, 2020

Last Modified

November 21, 2024

Advisory Details (6)

Auto-updated Oct 2, 2026
Patch available.
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Chromium, Google Chrome: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 202009-13) — Gentoo security

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202009-13
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[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: chromium-85.0.4183.121-1.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora mailing-lists

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YWNBJFBPKYCYSZTS54FHNCRZG6KC2AIJ/
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[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: chromium-85.0.4183.121-1.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora mailing-lists

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GNIYFJST4TFJYFZ27VODBOINCLBGULTD/
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[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: chromium-85.0.4183.121-1.fc31 - package-announce - Fedora mailing-lists

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FN7HZIGAOCZKBT4LV363BCPRA5FLY25I/
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Chrome Releases: Stable Channel Update for Desktop

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/09/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_21.html

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2020-15963(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Patch Availability(1)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
redhatchromium-browser-0:85.0.4183.121-1.el6_102020-10-07redhat

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(5 across 5 ecosystems)
Debian:10(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
chromium73.0.3683.75-1 ... 87.0.4280.88-0.3 (47 versions)
  • every version up to 87.0.4280.88-0.4~deb10u1: fixed in 87.0.4280.88-0.4~deb10u1
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Debian:11(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
chromium—
  • every version up to 87.0.4280.88-0.1: fixed in 87.0.4280.88-0.1
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Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
chromium—
  • every version up to 87.0.4280.88-0.1: fixed in 87.0.4280.88-0.1
—
Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
chromium—
  • every version up to 87.0.4280.88-0.1: fixed in 87.0.4280.88-0.1
—
Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
chromium—
  • every version up to 87.0.4280.88-0.1: fixed in 87.0.4280.88-0.1
—

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 21× in last 7d / 87× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed its CVE.org record (CNA or CISA ADP). An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). "EchelonGraph re-scored" is our own recompute of this CVE's score, not an update from a source, and is not counted in the refreshes above. Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 304 rows on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 204 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-13 16:38 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 74th percentile
  2. 2026-11-13 05:26 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  3. 2026-11-13 05:26 UTCVendor advisory
  4. 2026-11-13 05:26 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r73h-rm5p-mq5f · GitHub severity CRITICAL
  5. 2026-11-12 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 74th percentile
  6. 2026-11-12 04:50 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  7. 2026-11-12 04:50 UTCVendor advisory
  8. 2026-11-12 04:50 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r73h-rm5p-mq5f · GitHub severity CRITICAL
  9. 2026-11-11 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 74th percentile
  10. 2026-11-11 04:14 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  11. 2026-11-11 04:14 UTCVendor advisory
  12. 2026-11-11 04:14 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r73h-rm5p-mq5f · GitHub severity CRITICAL
  13. 2026-11-10 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 74th percentile
  14. 2026-11-10 03:33 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  15. 2026-11-10 03:33 UTCVendor advisory
  16. 2026-11-10 03:33 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r73h-rm5p-mq5f · GitHub severity CRITICAL
  17. 2026-11-09 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 73rd percentile
  18. 2026-11-09 02:57 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  19. 2026-11-09 02:57 UTCVendor advisory
  20. 2026-11-09 02:57 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r73h-rm5p-mq5f · GitHub severity CRITICAL
  21. 2026-11-08 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 73rd percentile
  22. 2026-11-08 02:22 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  23. 2026-11-08 02:22 UTCVendor advisory
  24. 2026-11-08 02:22 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r73h-rm5p-mq5f · GitHub severity CRITICAL
  25. 2026-11-07 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 73rd percentile
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  1. 2026-11-07 01:46 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  2. 2026-11-07 01:46 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-11-07 01:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r73h-rm5p-mq5f · GitHub severity CRITICAL
  4. 2026-11-06 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 73rd percentile
  5. 2026-11-06 01:10 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  6. 2026-11-06 01:10 UTCVendor advisory
  7. 2026-11-06 01:10 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r73h-rm5p-mq5f · GitHub severity CRITICAL
  8. 2026-11-05 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 73rd percentile
  9. 2026-11-05 00:33 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  10. 2026-11-05 00:33 UTCVendor advisory
  11. 2026-11-05 00:33 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r73h-rm5p-mq5f · GitHub severity CRITICAL
  12. 2026-11-04 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 73rd percentile
  13. 2026-11-03 23:57 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  14. 2026-11-03 23:57 UTCVendor advisory
  15. 2026-11-03 23:57 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r73h-rm5p-mq5f · GitHub severity CRITICAL
  16. 2026-11-03 16:36 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 73rd percentile
  17. 2026-11-03 09:25 UTCOSV refresh
  18. 2026-11-02 23:22 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  19. 2026-11-02 23:22 UTCVendor advisory
  20. 2026-11-02 23:22 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r73h-rm5p-mq5f · GitHub severity CRITICAL
  21. 2026-11-02 16:36 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 73rd percentile
  22. 2026-11-01 22:46 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  23. 2026-11-01 22:46 UTCVendor advisory
  24. 2026-11-01 22:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r73h-rm5p-mq5f · GitHub severity CRITICAL
  25. 2026-10-31 22:11 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  26. 2026-10-31 22:11 UTCVendor advisory
  27. 2026-10-31 22:11 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r73h-rm5p-mq5f · GitHub severity CRITICAL
  28. 2026-10-31 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 73rd percentile
  29. 2026-10-30 21:32 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  30. 2026-10-30 21:32 UTCVendor advisory
  31. 2026-10-30 21:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r73h-rm5p-mq5f · GitHub severity CRITICAL
  32. 2026-10-30 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 73rd percentile
  33. 2026-10-29 20:57 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  34. 2026-10-29 20:57 UTCVendor advisory
  35. 2026-10-29 20:57 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r73h-rm5p-mq5f · GitHub severity CRITICAL
  36. 2026-10-29 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 73rd percentile
  37. 2026-10-28 20:21 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  38. 2026-10-28 20:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r73h-rm5p-mq5f · GitHub severity CRITICAL
  39. 2026-10-28 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 73rd percentile
  40. 2026-10-27 19:45 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  41. 2026-10-27 19:45 UTCVendor advisory
  42. 2026-10-27 19:45 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r73h-rm5p-mq5f · GitHub severity CRITICAL
  43. 2026-10-27 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 73rd percentile
  44. 2026-10-26 19:09 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  45. 2026-10-26 19:09 UTCVendor advisory
  46. 2026-10-26 19:09 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r73h-rm5p-mq5f · GitHub severity CRITICAL
  47. 2026-10-26 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 73rd percentile
  48. 2026-10-25 16:49 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  49. 2026-10-25 16:49 UTCVendor advisory
  50. 2026-10-25 16:49 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r73h-rm5p-mq5f · GitHub severity CRITICAL
  51. 2026-10-25 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 73rd percentile
  52. 2026-10-24 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 73rd percentile
  53. 2026-10-24 16:14 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  54. 2026-10-24 16:14 UTCVendor advisory
  55. 2026-10-24 16:13 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r73h-rm5p-mq5f · GitHub severity CRITICAL
  56. 2026-10-23 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 73rd percentile
  57. 2026-10-23 15:33 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  58. 2026-10-23 15:33 UTCVendor advisory
  59. 2026-10-23 15:33 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r73h-rm5p-mq5f · GitHub severity CRITICAL
  60. 2026-10-22 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 73rd percentile
  61. 2026-10-22 14:52 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  62. 2026-10-22 14:52 UTCVendor advisory
  63. 2026-10-22 14:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r73h-rm5p-mq5f · GitHub severity CRITICAL
  64. 2026-10-21 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 73rd percentile
  65. 2026-10-21 14:16 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  66. 2026-10-21 14:16 UTCVendor advisory
  67. 2026-10-21 14:16 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r73h-rm5p-mq5f · GitHub severity CRITICAL
  68. 2026-10-20 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 73rd percentile
  69. 2026-10-20 13:41 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  70. 2026-10-20 13:41 UTCVendor advisory
  71. 2026-10-20 13:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r73h-rm5p-mq5f · GitHub severity CRITICAL
  72. 2026-10-19 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 73rd percentile
  73. 2026-10-19 12:54 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  74. 2026-10-19 12:54 UTCVendor advisory
  75. 2026-10-19 12:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r73h-rm5p-mq5f · GitHub severity CRITICAL

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2020-15963?
CVE-2020-15963 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on September 21, 2020. 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 potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted Chrome Extension.
When was the CVE record for CVE-2020-15963 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2020-15963 was published on September 21, 2020. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of November 21, 2024; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2020-15963 actively exploited?
CVE-2020-15963 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (74th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2020-15963?
CVE-2020-15963 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.6 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2020-15963?
A fix for CVE-2020-15963 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2020-15963 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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