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Microsoft Edge Chromium: CVE-2020-16007

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

Published

Nov 3, 2020

Added

Nov 17, 2021

Modified

Mar 30, 2026

Description

Insufficient data validation in installer in Google Chrome prior to 86.0.4240.183 allowed a local attacker to potentially elevate privilege via a crafted filesystem.

Solution

microsoft-edge-upgrade-latest

References

CVE-2020-16007
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2020-16007
CWE-59
EUVD-EUVD-2020-7977
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2020-7977
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2020-16007

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