How severe is CVE-2020-16010?

CVE-2020-16010 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 9.6 (CRITICAL). EPSS estimates a 6.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2020-16010: Google Chrome for Android UI Heap Buffer Overflow

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

Google Chrome for Android UI Heap Buffer Overflow Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV

2021-11-03

Remediation due

2022-05-03

Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.

CISA notes
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-16010

Description

Heap buffer overflow in UI in Google Chrome on Android prior to 86.0.4240.185 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted HTML page.

Severity

CVSS 3.1 · CISA9.6 CRITICAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC · CISA-ADP

Exploitationactive

Automatableno

Technical impacttotal

Exploitation Context

as of October 17, 2026

All KEV statistics→

CISA added CVE-2020-16010 to the KEV catalog 365 days after its CVE record was published.
It is one of 75 Google entries in the CISA KEV catalog, and one of 23 added in 2021.
Its current EPSS score (6.4%) is higher than that of 21% of CISA KEV entries.

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
Google	Google Chrome	unspecified to <86.0.4240.185

References

2 Links

Other references

Record Details

Published

2020-11-03

Last updated

2026-01-12

Assigner (CNA)

Chrome

Credited to

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