PT-2020-5025 · Google+2 · Google Chrome+2

Published 2020-11-17 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2020-16021

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

10

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Google Chrome on ChromeOS versions prior to 87.0.4280.66

Description The issue is related to a race condition in the image burner component of Google Chrome on ChromeOS, caused by synchronization errors when using a shared resource. This could allow a remote attacker who has compromised the browser process to perform OS-level privilege escalation via a malicious file, potentially leading to the execution of arbitrary code.

Recommendations For Google Chrome on ChromeOS versions prior to 87.0.4280.66, update to version 87.0.4280.66 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Race Condition

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-362

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2020-3409

ALT-PU-2021-1049

ALT-PU-2021-1157

ALT-PU-2021-1210

ALT-PU-2021-1379

BDU:2020-05612

CVE-2020-16021

DSA-4824-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2020:2010-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2020:2012-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2020:2021-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2020:2026-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2020:2032-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2020:2055-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2020_2021-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2020_2032-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10681-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:12948-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Google Chrome

Suse

References · 2341

• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2020-05612 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-4824-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10681-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://crbug.com/1139414 · Vendor Advisory
• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/11/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_17.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-16021 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:12948-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2020:2055-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2020-16021 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2020:2012-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-16021 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2020:2032-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-16021 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-16021 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2020-16021 · Vendor Advisory