CVE-2020-16010 on CISA KEV

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.

01What CISA says about this vulnerability

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.

02Required action — verbatim from CISA

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

03Notes & references

• crbug.com — https://crbug.com/1144368
• chromereleases.googleblog.com — https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/11/chrome-for-android-update.html

04SARA's analyst layer — why this matters

This vulnerability is currently on the CISA KEV list, which CISA only adds CVEs to when there is reliable evidence of active exploitation in the wild. For federal civilian agencies, BOD 22-01 requires remediation by the due date above. For everyone else, KEV is the strongest "patch immediately" signal you can get from public threat intel.

05Affected products (summary)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Google	Chrome	unspecified

06Detection

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