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high 8.8

CVE-2019-5816 json

Process lifetime issue in Chrome in Google Chrome on Android prior to 74.0.3729.108 allowed a remote attacker to potentially persist an exp…

published 2019-06-27 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2019-15387

cvss
8.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.6%
EPSS 1.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 76%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Process lifetime issue in Chrome in Google Chrome on Android prior to 74.0.3729.108 allowed a remote attacker to potentially persist an exploited process via a crafted HTML page.

Patch / fix

  • Google Chrome 74.0.3729.108
  • chromium-browser Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 74.0.3729.169-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
  • chromium-browser Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 74.0.3729.169-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2019-5816

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 openSUSE Tumbleweed 93.0.4577.82-1.1
  • chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 113.0.5672.92-1.1
  • chromium Package Hub 15, Package Hub 12 SP3, openSUSE Leap 15.1 +1 more 75.0.3770.90-bp150.213.3
  • chromium Package Hub 15 74.0.3729.108-bp150.207.1
  • chromium openSUSE Leap 15.0 74.0.3729.108-lp150.209.2

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10681-1openSUSE-SU-2024:12948-1openSUSE-SU-2019:1666-1openSUSE-SU-2019:1436-1openSUSE-SU-2019:1325-1

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-2019-5816 updated cvss 6.5

chromium-browser: Exploit persistence extension on Android

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 chromium-browser
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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

Exploit prediction

1.65% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 76% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

  • Google Chrome

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-664 Improper Control of a Resource Through its Lifetime
Technology feeds

References

Sources

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