CVE-2020-6418

Description

Type confusion in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 80.0.3987.122 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

References

https://www.tenable.com/blog/cve-2021-21148-google-chrome-heap-buffer-overflow-vulnerability-exploited-in-the-wild

https://www.tenable.com/cyber-exposure/2020-threat-landscape-retrospective

https://www.tenable.com/blog/how-covid-19-response-is-expanding-the-cyberattack-surface

https://www.tenable.com/blog/cve-2020-6418-google-chrome-type-confusion-vulnerability-exploited-in-the-wild

https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4638

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-08

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/X3B5RWJQD5LA45MYLLR55KZJOJ5NVZGP/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6IOHSO6BUKC6I66J5PZOMAGFVJ66ZS57/

https://crbug.com/1053604

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/02/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_24.html

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0738

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/156632/Google-Chrome-80-JSCreate-Side-Effect-Type-Confusion.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3