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medium 6.5

CVE-2019-5786 kev in the critical feed json

Use-After-Free in puppeteer

published 2019-06-27 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-c2gp-86p4-5935 , EUVD-2020-0957

cvss
6.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Exploited
added 2022-05-23
epss
61.1%
EPSS 61.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.1%
public exploits
2
Metasploit, Exploit-DB

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

cisa required action Apply updates per vendor instructions.

  • npm puppeteer 1.13.0
  • Google Chrome 72.0.3626.121
  • chromium Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 72.0.3626.121-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2019-5786

  • chromium-browser Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 72.0.3626.121-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
  • chromium-browser Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 72.0.3626.121-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2019-5786

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • chromium-browser RHEL 6 EXTRAS 72.0.3626.121-1.el6_10

red hat advisories RHSA-2019:0481

  • chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 93.0.4577.82-1.1
  • chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 113.0.5672.92-1.1
  • chromium Package Hub 15, Package Hub 12 SP2, openSUSE Leap 15.0 72.0.3626.121-bp150.2.37.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10681-1openSUSE-SU-2024:12948-1openSUSE-SU-2019:0298-1

  • chromium Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +13 more 72.0.3626.121-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2019-5786

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • chromium Arch Linux 72.0.3626.121-1

arch linux advisories AVG-916

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2019-5786 updated cvss 8.8

chromium-browser: Use-after-free in FileReader

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 72.0.3626.121-1.el6_10 Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 72.0.3626.121-1.el6_10 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 72.0.3626.121-1.el6_10 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 72.0.3626.121-1.el6_10
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2019:0481

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. Found exploited as a 0-day (Project Zero)
  2. 0-day patched (Project Zero)
  3. First public exploit (Metasploit exploit/windows/browser/chrome_filereader_uaf)
  4. Published
  5. Added to CISA KEV
  6. CISA patch deadline
  7. CISA SSVC: exploitation active

Known exploited

Added
4 y ago
Patch by
2022-06-13 (4 y ago)
Ransomware
Not known
Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.
Vendor, product
Google, Chrome Blink
CISA name
Google Chrome Blink Use-After-Free Vulnerability

Zero-day

Detected in real attacks while still unknown to the vendor and the public, per Google Project Zero's 0day In-the-Wild tracker.

Found
2019-02-27
Patched
2019-03-01
Details
project zero tracker

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Active, exploited in the wild
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
20 mo ago

Exploit prediction

61.09% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.1% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CNA 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
GitHub 3.0 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
npm puppeteer
<1.13.0
1.13.0

Affected products

  • Google Chrome

Classification

Weakness
Technology feeds

References

Sources

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