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CVE-2020-16005
Insufficient policy enforcement in ANGLE in Google Chrome prior to 86.0.4240.183 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap…
High8.8EPSS 1.7%
- Published
- Updated
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- Chrome
Description
Insufficient policy enforcement in ANGLE in Google Chrome prior to 86.0.4240.183 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.7% · top 23% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Weakness
- Insufficient policy enforcement
- CWE-755 (opens in a new tab)Other CVEs with CWE-755
- CWE-787 (opens in a new tab)Other CVEs with CWE-787
Affected products
Google · Chrome
- affected unspecified – < 86.0.4240.183
References (8)
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/11/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://crbug.com/1139398 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2020:1829 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2020:1831 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- GLSA-202011-12 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- FEDORA-2020-4e8e48da22 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2020-3e005ce2e0 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- DSA-4824 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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