CVE-2020-16017

State: Published
Severity: 9.6 Critical
Published: Jan 8, 2021
Updated: Oct 21, 2025
Reserved: Jul 27, 2020

Description

Use after free in site isolation in Google Chrome prior to 86.0.4240.198 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted HTML page.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	9.6 Critical	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-416 Use After Free

Affected Products

Product	Versions
ChromeGoogle	before 86.0.4240.198Affected

References

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/11/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_11.html
https://crbug.com/1146709
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2020-16017government-resource

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