What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-15969

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2020-11-03 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-416

Description

Use after free in WebRTC in Google Chrome prior to 86.0.4240.75 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

Affected products

• Apple iPadOS: before 14.3 — fixed in 14.3
• Apple Iphone Os: before 14.3 — fixed in 14.3
• Apple macOS: before 11.1 — fixed in 11.1
• Apple Safari: before 14.0.2 — fixed in 14.0.2
• Apple tvOS: before 14.3 — fixed in 14.3
• Apple watchOS: before 7.2 — fixed in 7.2
• Debian Linux: 10.0
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 31, 32, 33
• Google Chrome: before 86.0.4240.75 — fixed in 86.0.4240.75
• openSUSE Backports Sle: 15.0-sp2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Apple iPadOS 14.3; Apple Iphone Os 14.3; Apple macOS 11.1; Apple Safari 14.0.2; Apple tvOS 14.3; Apple watchOS 7.2; Google Chrome 86.0.4240.75. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00016.html
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Dec/24
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Dec/26
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Dec/27
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Dec/29
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Dec/30
• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
• https://crbug.com/1124659
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/24QFL4C3AZKMFVL7LVSYMU2DNE5VVUGS/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4GWCWNHTTYOH6HSFUXPGPBB6J6JYZHZE/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SC3U3H6AISVZB5PLZLLNF4HMQ4UFFL7M/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-30

Get alerted when CVE-2020-15969 or the next vulnerability affects your stack