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Google Chrome Vulnerability: CVE-2020-15970 A use-after-free vulnerability. Specifically, this issue exists in the 'NFC' component.

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Google Chrome Vulnerability: CVE-2020-15970 A use-after-free vulnerability. Specifically, this issue exists in the 'NFC' component.

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
10/08/2020
Created
10/09/2020
Added
10/08/2020
Modified
11/26/2024

Description

Use after free in NFC in Google Chrome prior to 86.0.4240.75 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted HTML page.

Solution(s)

  • google-chrome-upgrade-latest

References

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