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CVE-2020-16039

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Date: January 8, 2021

Use after free in extensions in Google Chrome prior to 87.0.4280.88 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

Language: C

Severity Score

8.8

Related Resources (7)

Url: https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2020-16039

Url: https://crbug.com/1149177

Url: https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/12/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2020-16039

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-16039

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-16039

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2020-16039

Severity Score

8.8

Weakness Type (CWE)

Out-of-bounds Write

CWE-787

Use After Free

CWE-416

Top Fix

Upgrade Version

Upgrade to version 87.0.4280.88-1

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	8.8
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	REQUIRED
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	9.3
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	COMPLETE
Integrity (I):	COMPLETE
Availability (A):	COMPLETE
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