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01 Record

CVE-2020-16042

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.

UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: Chrome
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector

02 Description

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.

03 Exploitation and scoring

Exploitation
Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
SSVC decision
Not assessed by CISA
EPSS probability
1.11% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
EPSS percentile
Equal to or higher than the score of 65.8% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
NVD base score
6.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
NVD CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD analysis status
Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
Red Hat severity
Important. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

04 Metadata

Published
2021-01-08 17:54Z5 YR AGO
Last updated
2024-08-04 13:37Z2 YR AGO
Reserved
2020-07-27
Assigning CNA
Chrome
Record state
PUBLISHED
Severity
Not rated by the issuing CNA
CNA CVSS vector
Not published by the issuing CNA
Weaknesses
  • CWE-908Use of Uninitialized ResourceBase
Data version
5.1
Document digest
edf4d16640c6cfd8cf8ac8b7ab65968c6557d19d51d48354d2a41cead131bfd6

05 Affected products

VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
GoogleChrome< 87.0.4280.88—

06 References

07 Fixed in

Arch Linux

  • chromium
    Fixed in 87.0.4280.88-1
  • firefox
    Fixed in 84.0-1
  • thunderbird
    Fixed in 78.6.0-1

Source: Arch Linux Security Tracker, the Arch Linux security team. Reformatted by exploit.cc.

Debian 12

  • chromium
    Fixed in 87.0.4280.88-0.1
  • firefox-esr
    Fixed in 78.6.0esr-1
  • thunderbird
    Fixed in 1:78.6.0-1

Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.

Debian 13

  • chromium
    Fixed in 87.0.4280.88-0.1
  • firefox-esr
    Fixed in 78.6.0esr-1
  • thunderbird
    Fixed in 1:78.6.0-1

Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.

Debian 14

  • chromium
    Fixed in 87.0.4280.88-0.1
  • firefox-esr
    Fixed in 78.6.0esr-1
  • thunderbird
    Fixed in 1:78.6.0-1

Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

  • chromium-browser
    Fixed in 89.0.4389.82-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
  • firefox
    Fixed in 84.0+build3-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

  • chromium-browser
    Fixed in 89.0.4389.82-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
  • firefox
    Fixed in 84.0+build3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
  • thunderbird
    Fixed in 1:78.8.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

  • firefox
    Fixed in 84.0+build3-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
  • thunderbird
    Fixed in 1:78.7.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1

Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.

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