CVE-2020-16009
ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2020-1500 ↗
Exploited in the Wild
✓ Confirmed 0-Day
★ Google Project Zero
Triaged: March 5, 2026
7 articles
Published: 2020-11-03
EPSS Score
Source: FIRST.org · 2026-05-23
84.38%
probability
This CVE has a 84.38% probability
of being exploited in the next 30 days.
0%
Top 99.3th percentile of all CVEs
100%
CVSS v3.1
Source: VulnerabilityLookup (CIRCL)8.8
HIGH
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2 (legacy)
6.8
MEDIUM
Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Description
VulnerabilityLookup (CNA)Inappropriate implementation in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 86.0.4240.183 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.
Affected Products
Google
Chrome
unspecified
Attack Intelligence
Google Project Zero
Discovered
Oct. 29, 2020
Patched
Nov. 2, 2020
Reported by
Google Project Zero/Google TAG
Root Cause Analysis
https://googleprojectzero.github.io/0days-in-the-wild//0day-RCAs/2020/CVE-2020-16009.html
https://crbug.com/1143772
x_refsource_MISC
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00016.html
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_SUSE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00017.html
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_SUSE
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-12
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_GENTOO
Signal Intelligence
Confidence
95%
EPSS
84.38%
CVSS v3.1
8.8
Mentions
7
Last Seen
Apr 21, 2021
CNA Information
CNA Assigner
Chrome
Analyst Note
Auto-imported from Google Project Zero — confirmed zero-day by definition.
Triage Info
Decided atMar 05, 2026
Published DateNov 03, 2020