CVE-2020-16005

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-755

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.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 10.0
Fedoraproject Fedora: 32, 33
Google Chrome: before 86.0.4240.183 — fixed in 86.0.4240.183
openSUSE Backports Sle: 15.0-sp1, 15.0-sp2
openSUSE Leap: 15.1, 15.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Google Chrome 86.0.4240.183. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00016.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00017.html
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/11/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
https://crbug.com/1139398
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/S4XYJ7B6OXHZNYSA5J3DBUOFEC6WCAGW/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SC3U3H6AISVZB5PLZLLNF4HMQ4UFFL7M/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-12
https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4824
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00016.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00017.html
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/11/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
https://crbug.com/1139398

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