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Ubuntu: (CVE-2020-16007): chromium-browser vulnerability

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Severity	CVSS	Published	Added	Modified
5	(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)	Nov 3, 2020	Nov 19, 2024	Aug 18, 2025

Severity

CVSS

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

Published

Nov 3, 2020

Added

Nov 19, 2024

Modified

Aug 18, 2025

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

ubuntu-upgrade-chromium-browser

References

CVE-2020-16007
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2020-16007
CWE-59
DEBIAN-DSA-4824
URL-https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/11/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
URL-https://crbug.com/1125018
URL-https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-16007

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