Use After Free The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package chromium-browser  (opens in a new tab)


Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
0.16% (54th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2004-CHROMIUMBROWSER-1044246
  • published24 Nov 2020
  • disclosed8 Jan 2021

Introduced: 24 Nov 2020

CVE-2020-16018  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:20.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream chromium-browser package and not the chromium-browser package as distributed by Ubuntu.

Use after free in payments in Google Chrome prior to 87.0.4280.66 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted HTML page.