CVE-2020-16042 (GCVE-0-2020-16042)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-01-08 17:54 – Updated: 2024-08-04 13:37
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Summary
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.
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CWE
  • Uninitialized Use
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Google Chrome Affected: unspecified , < 87.0.4280.88 (custom)
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