Cyber Resilience

CVE-2020-16042

Medium

Published: 08 January 2021

Published
08 January 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0026 49.8th percentile
Risk Priority 13 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2020-16042 is a medium-severity Use of Uninitialized Resource (CWE-908) vulnerability in Google Chrome. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 49.8th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

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.

CWE(s)
CWE-908

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

google
chrome
≤ 87.0.4280.88

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References