CVE•Published 2021-01-08•1 article on news•6 live references•NVD data

CVE-2020-16040

Vulnerability data via CVEDB (Shodan)

CVSS v3.1

6.5

MEDIUM

EPSS percentile

100

Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 0% of all CVEs

Description

Insufficient data validation in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 87.0.4280.88 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

Timeline

Published 2021-01-08

External references

NVD MITRE Exploit-DB Sploitus trickest/cve VulnCheck

Search for exposed instances

Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).

Shodan · vuln tag0 hosts

vuln:CVE-2020-16040

Hosts Shodan has explicitly fingerprinted as vulnerable.

Shodan · product

product:"Google Chrome"

All exposed Google Chrome instances — cross-reference with the CVE's affected-version range.

Shodan · banner/body mention

http.html:"Chrome"

HTTP body or banner mentions "Chrome" — catches deploys Shodan didn't identify as a product.

More intel sources (5)

Shodan report

vuln:CVE-2020-16040