CVE-2020-16010
Published 2020-11-03 · Updated 2026-06-17 · Source chrome-cve-admin@google.com
Summary
CVE-2020-16010 is a critical-severity (CVSS 9.6) vulnerability in Google Chrome for Android UI. CISA added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on November 3, 2021, which means exploitation in the wild has been confirmed; US federal agencies had to remediate it by May 3, 2022. CISA does not currently list it as used in ransomware campaigns. Google has 76 vulnerabilities in the KEV catalog, 0 of them linked to ransomware.
All 76 known-exploited Google vulnerabilities →Description
Heap buffer overflow in UI in Google Chrome on Android prior to 86.0.4240.185 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted HTML page.
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA Known-Exploited Vulnerability
Product: Google — Chrome for Android UI
Name: Google Chrome for Android UI Heap Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Date added: 2021-11-03 · Due: 2022-05-03
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