CVE-2019-5786
mediumpriority · act · 90OT risk · criticalKEV · exploitedEPSS 0.611 · 99 %ileexploit · functionalEURUUSadded 2022-05-23remediate by 2022-06-13
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EPSS · scored 2026-10-27
Google Chrome Blink Use-After-Free Vulnerability
Object lifetime issue in Blink in Google Chrome prior to 72.0.3626.121 allowed a remote attacker to potentially perform out of bounds memory access via a crafted HTML page.
cvss
Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.
base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–critical · 4.3–9.6
ssvc
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weaknesses
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exploits (3)
Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.
- EDB-46812Google Chrome 72.0.3626.119 - 'FileReader' Use-After-Free (Metasploit)functional · exploit_db
- exodusintel/CVE-2019-5786FileReader ExploitPoC · poc_in_github
affected products (7)
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advisories (1)
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- GHSA-c2gp-86p4-5935Use-After-Free in puppeteer2020-09-02ghsa · osvUS
Versions of `puppeteer` prior to 1.13.0 are vulnerable to the Use-After-Free vulnerability in Chromium (CVE-2019-5786). The Chromium FileReader API is vulnerable to Use-After-Free which may lead to Remote Code Execution. ## Recommendation Upgrade to version 1.13.0 or later.
also known as (4)
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sources
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references (24)
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- http://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4404cnnvd
- http://www.google.com/chromecnnvd
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107213cnnvd
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1127602&_ga=2.222770907.119421949.1551676648-552695333.1544000216cnnvd
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2019/03/stable-channel-update-for-chrome-os.htmlcnnvd
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2019/03/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.htmlcnnvd
- https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+log/72.0.3626.119..72.0.3626.121?pretty=fuller&n=10000cnnvd
- https://crbug.com/936448cnnvd
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