CVE-2020-6418

HIGH8.8

CISA KEV

Published 2020-02-27 · Updated 2026-06-17 · Source chrome-cve-admin@google.com

Summary

CVE-2020-6418 is a high-severity (CVSS 8.8) vulnerability in Google Chromium V8. 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 75 vulnerabilities in the KEV catalog, 0 of them linked to ransomware.

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Description

Type confusion in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 80.0.3987.122 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE-843CWE-843

CISA Known-Exploited Vulnerability

Product: Google — Chromium V8

Name: Google Chromium V8 Type Confusion Vulnerability

Date added: 2021-11-03 · Due: 2022-05-03

Required action: Apply updates per vendor instructions.

References

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