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CVE-2020-16042

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Date: January 8, 2021

Uninitialized Use in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 87.0.4280.88 allowed a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information from process memory via a crafted HTML page.

Language: C++

Severity Score

6.5

Related Resources (8)

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2020-16042

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-16042

Url: https://crbug.com/1151890

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-16042

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

Url: https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2020-16042

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-16042

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2020-16042

Severity Score

6.5

Weakness Type (CWE)

Information Leak / Disclosure

CWE-200

Top Fix

Upgrade Version

Upgrade to version 71.0.3550.0

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	6.5
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	REQUIRED
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	NONE

CVSS v2

Base Score:	4.3
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	PARTIAL
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	NONE
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