CVE-2020-16010 vulnerability in Google Products
Published on November 3, 2020
Known Exploited Vulnerability
This Google Chrome for Android Heap Overflow Vulnerability is part of CISA's list of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities. Heap buffer overflow in UI in Google Chrome on Android prior to 86.0.4240.185 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted HTML page.
The following remediation steps are recommended / required by May 3, 2022: Apply updates per vendor instructions.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2020-16010 is exploitable with network access, requires user interaction. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. This vulnerability is known to be actively exploited by threat actors. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be critical as this vulnerability has a high impact to the confidentiality, integrity and availability of this component.
Weakness Type
Heap-based Buffer Overflow
A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc().
Products Associated with CVE-2020-16010
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Affected Versions
Google Chrome:- Version unspecified and below 86.0.4240.185 is affected.
- Before 86.0.4240.185 is affected.
- Version * is affected.
Exploit Probability
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