CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-16021
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-01-08
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.1 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-362
Description
Race in image burner in Google Chrome on ChromeOS prior to 87.0.4280.66 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the browser process to perform OS-level privilege escalation via a malicious file.
Affected configurations
• google chrome (< 87.0.4280.66)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness
References
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/11/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_17.html Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://crbug.com/1139414 Permissions Required, Vendor Advisory
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/11/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_17.html Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://crbug.com/1139414 Permissions Required, Vendor Advisory