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CVE-2020-15995

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.3% 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-787

Description

Out of bounds write in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 86.0.4240.99 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 10.0
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 32, 33
• Google Chrome: before 86.0.4240.99 — fixed in 86.0.4240.99

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Google Chrome 86.0.4240.99. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/10/chrome-for-android-update_31.html
• https://crbug.com/1132111
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VVUWIJKZTZTG6G475OR6PP4WPQBVM6PS/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Z6P6AVVFP7B2M4H7TJQBASRZIBLOTUFN/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-05
• https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4832
• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/10/chrome-for-android-update_31.html
• https://crbug.com/1132111
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VVUWIJKZTZTG6G475OR6PP4WPQBVM6PS/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Z6P6AVVFP7B2M4H7TJQBASRZIBLOTUFN/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-05
• https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4832

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