CVE-2020-15993 is a critical use-after-free vulnerability in the printing component of Google Chrome, affecting versions prior to 86.0.4240.99, including Google Android. This flaw allows a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption through a specially crafted HTML page. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), it presents a high risk of complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability, requiring no user interaction or privileges. While there is no evidence of active exploitation (KEV: No) and no public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB: None), the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion with 11 mentions, indicating notable attention.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 86.0.4240.99CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.