CVE-2020-16009

high

Description

Inappropriate implementation in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 86.0.4240.183 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

From the Tenable Blog

CVE-2020-15999, CVE-2020-17087: Google Chrome FreeType and Microsoft Windows Kernel Zero Days Exploited in the Wild

CVE-2020-15999, CVE-2020-17087: Google Chrome FreeType and Microsoft Windows Kernel Zero Days Exploited in the Wild

Published: 2020-11-02

A pair of zero-day vulnerabilities in Google Chrome (CVE-2020-15999) and Microsoft Windows (CVE-2020-17087) were chained together and exploited in the wild in targeted attacks. A separate Chrome vulnerability (CVE-2020-16009) has also been exploited in the wild.

References

https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4824

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-12

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SC3U3H6AISVZB5PLZLLNF4HMQ4UFFL7M/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/S4XYJ7B6OXHZNYSA5J3DBUOFEC6WCAGW/

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00017.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00016.html

https://www.tenable.com/cyber-exposure/2020-threat-landscape-retrospective

https://www.tenable.com/blog/cve-2021-21148-google-chrome-heap-buffer-overflow-vulnerability-exploited-in-the-wild

https://www.tenable.com/blog/cve-2020-15999-cve-2020-17087-google-chrome-microsoft-windows-kernel-zero-day-vulnerabilities-exploited-in-wild-along-with-cve-2020-16009

https://crbug.com/1143772

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/11/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/159974/Chrome-V8-Turbofan-Type-Confusion.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-11-03

Updated: 2025-02-05

Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV)

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.82198