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CVE-2020-16042

Publication date 15 December 2020

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

Uninitialized Use in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 87.0.4280.88 allowed a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information from process memory via a crafted HTML page.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
chromium-browser 23.04 lunar
Not affected
22.10 kinetic
Not affected
22.04 LTS jammy
Not affected
21.10 impish
Not affected
21.04 hirsute
Not affected
20.10 groovy
Not affected
20.04 LTS focal
Not affected
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 89.0.4389.82-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 89.0.4389.82-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
firefox 23.04 lunar
Fixed 84.0+build3-0ubuntu2
22.10 kinetic
Fixed 84.0+build3-0ubuntu2
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 84.0+build3-0ubuntu2
21.10 impish
Fixed 84.0+build3-0ubuntu2
21.04 hirsute
Fixed 84.0+build3-0ubuntu2
20.10 groovy
Fixed 84.0+build3-0ubuntu0.20.10.1
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 84.0+build3-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 84.0+build3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 84.0+build3-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
thunderbird 23.04 lunar
Fixed 1:78.6.0+build1-0ubuntu1
22.10 kinetic
Fixed 1:78.6.0+build1-0ubuntu1
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 1:78.6.0+build1-0ubuntu1
21.10 impish
Fixed 1:78.6.0+build1-0ubuntu1
21.04 hirsute
Fixed 1:78.6.0+build1-0ubuntu1
20.10 groovy
Fixed 1:78.6.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.10.1
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 1:78.7.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 1:78.8.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
16.04 LTS xenial Ignored end of standard support, was needed
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release

Notes

alexmurray

The Debian chromium source package is called chromium-browser in Ubuntu

mdeslaur

starting with Ubuntu 19.10, the chromium-browser package is just a script that installs the Chromium snap

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.5 · Medium
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact None
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N