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CVE-2020-6572
· EUVD no mirror located
· GCVE no mirror located
Verified 2026-06-22
Google Chrome Media vulnerability
Google Chrome Media contains a use-after-free vulnerability allowing remote code execution through crafted HTML pages.
Verdict
Today item — known-exploited.
Use-after-free in Chrome Media enables unauthenticated remote attackers to achieve code execution by delivering malicious HTML. Active exploitation observed in the wild.
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Is it exploitable?
— the evidence, ranked above the scoreReported exploitation
2 independent public reports of in-the-wild exploitation are cataloged.Distinct reporting sources (vendor, incident response, government); open them for the underlying claims.
Exploited in the wild
Listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2022-01-10).
Probability (EPSS)
EPSS 0.10586 — modeled likelihood of exploitation activity.EPSS is a daily-changing model output — open the source for today's value.
Severity / affected
Affected: Google, Chrome Media. Confirm exact fixed builds in the vendor advisory.
Weakness (CWE)
Mapped to CWE-416 Use After Free — weakness family: Memory safety.CWE assignment from the public NVD record; the weakness class drives how the flaw is exploited.
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Who’s exploiting it?
— attribution turns risk into urgencyAttribution not established
No confirmed (advisory-backed) threat-actor attribution is established for this record. Absence of a named actor is not absence of compromise — see Coverage & confidence.
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Why it matters
— the attack path, told twice: adversary, then board1
Front door — unauthenticated access narrative 1
Attacker
I craft a malicious HTML page that triggers memory reuse in Chrome's media handling code.
Business
User visits attacker-controlled or compromised website without additional interaction required.
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Keys to the kingdom — privilege/identity takeover narrative 2
Attacker
I exploit the use-after-free condition to corrupt memory and redirect execution flow to my payload.
Business
Attacker gains arbitrary code execution within the Chrome process with user privileges.
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Lateral reach — past segmentation narrative 3
Attacker
I execute malicious code on the victim's system to establish persistence or exfiltrate data.
Business
Confidentiality, integrity, and availability of user systems compromised; potential lateral movement to network resources.
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What to do
— defensible action- Remediate per the vendor advisory — confirm the fixed build for your version and verify exposure.1
Say it to the boardA vulnerability with this evidence profile is a defensible budget line, not a backlog ticket — fund the change against the proof above.
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