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CVE-2020-16042

chromium-browser: Uninitialized Use in V8

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

6.5

CVSS 3.1

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Published · December 2, 2020

Updated · November 22, 2025

Description

The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as:

When a BigInt was right-shifted the backing store was not properly cleared, allowing uninitialized memory to be read.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 6.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CWE not specified