CVE-2020-16042
chromium-browser: Uninitialized Use in V8
Severity Score
Exploit Likelihood
Affected Versions
Public Exploits
0Exploited in Wild
-Decision
Descriptions
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.
Un uso no inicializado en V8 en Google Chrome versiones anteriores a 87.0.4280.88, permitió a un atacante remoto conseguir información potencialmente confidencial de la memoria del proceso por medio de una página HTML diseñada
The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as: When a BigInt was right-shifted the backing store was not properly cleared, allowing uninitialized memory to be read.
Multiple security issues were discovered in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website in a browsing context, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service, obtain sensitive information, bypass the CSS sanitizer, or execute arbitrary code. It was discovered that the proxy.onRequest API did not catch view-source URLs. If a user were tricked in to installing an extension with the proxy permission and opening View Source, an attacker could potentially exploit this to obtain sensitive information. Various other issues were also addressed.
CVSS Scores
SSVC
- Decision:-
Timeline
- 2020-07-27 CVE Reserved
- 2020-12-07 CVE Published
- 2024-08-04 CVE Updated
- 2025-03-30 EPSS Updated
- ---------- Exploited in Wild
- ---------- KEV Due Date
- ---------- First Exploit
CWE
- CWE-908: Use of Uninitialized Resource
CAPEC
References (3)
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URL | Date | SRC |
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https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/12/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html | 2021-07-21 | |
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-16042 | 2020-12-21 | |
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1904515 | 2020-12-21 |
Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions
Vendor | Product | Version | Other | Status | ||||||
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Vendor | Product | Version | Other | Status | <-- --> | Vendor | Product | Version | Other | Status |
Google Search vendor "Google" | Chrome Search vendor "Google" for product "Chrome" | < 87.0.4280.88 Search vendor "Google" for product "Chrome" and version " < 87.0.4280.88" | - |
Affected
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