CVE-2020-16040

Insufficient data validation in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 87.0.4280.88 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

Affected

Google · Chrome

CVSS v3.1 NVD

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

CVSS v2.0 NVD

4.3 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

EPSS

99.59% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 100th percentile

Published

2021-01-08

Updated

2024-08-04

Proof-of-concept exploits (6)

• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162106/Google-Chrome-86.0.4240-V8-Remote-Code-Execut…
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162144/Google-Chrome-SimplfiedLowering-Integer-Overf…
• anvbis/trivialize5★ · 2023-03-15
• maldev866/ChExp_CVE_2020_160401★ · 2023-03-07
• r4j0x00/exploits2522★ · 2023-01-02
• yuvaly0/exploits30★ · 2025-07-18

Metasploit modules (1)

• rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/multi/browser/chrome_simplifiedl…

ExploitDB entries (1)

• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/49745

Exploit collections (1)

• CVE-2020-16040helloexp/0day

Security advisories

• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/12/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
• https://crbug.com/1150649

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

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