Detections
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CVE-2020-16021

high

Description

Race in image burner in Google Chrome on ChromeOS prior to 87.0.4280.66 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the browser process to perform OS-level privilege escalation via a malicious file.

References

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2020-7988

https://crbug.com/1139414

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/11/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_17.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2021-01-08

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.1

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00427