{"id":"CVE-2020-16041","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2020-16041","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T20:22:46.126Z","title":"Out of bounds read in networking in Google Chrome prior to 87.0.4280.88 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to obtain potentially sensitive information from process memory via a crafted HTML page.","description":"Out of bounds read in networking in Google Chrome prior to 87.0.4280.88 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to obtain potentially sensitive information from process memory via a crafted HTML page.","published":"2021-01-08T19:15:14.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T02:57:41.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"chrome-cve-admin@google.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":8.1,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-125"],"affected":["google/chrome"],"epss":{"score":0.02116,"percentile":0.81708,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (2.12%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/161581/Chrome-DataElement-Out-Of-Bounds-Read.html","tags":["Not Applicable","Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"chrome-cve-admin@google.com"},{"url":"https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/12/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html","tags":["Release Notes","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"chrome-cve-admin@google.com"},{"url":"https://crbug.com/1151865","tags":["Permissions Required","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"chrome-cve-admin@google.com"},{"url":"http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/161581/Chrome-DataElement-Out-Of-Bounds-Read.html","tags":["Not Applicable","Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/12/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html","tags":["Release Notes","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://crbug.com/1151865","tags":["Permissions Required","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-16041","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}