CVE-2020-16039

high

Description

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.

References

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2020-8006

https://crbug.com/1149177

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2021-01-08

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 9.3

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

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.8

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