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medium 6.5

CVE-2019-5848 json

Incorrect font handling in autofill in Google Chrome prior to 75.0.3770.142 allowed a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive infor…

published 2019-11-25 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2019-15419

cvss
6.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 42%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Incorrect font handling in autofill in Google Chrome prior to 75.0.3770.142 allowed a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information from process memory via a crafted HTML page.

Patch / fix

  • Google Chrome 75.0.3770.142
  • chromium Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 76.0.3809.87-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2019-5848

  • chromium-browser Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 76.0.3809.87-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
  • chromium-browser Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 75.0.3770.142-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2019-5848

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 75.0.3770.142-1.el6_10

red hat advisories RHSA-2019:1930

  • 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 75.0.3770.142-bp150.217.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10681-1openSUSE-SU-2024:12948-1openSUSE-SU-2019:1815-1

  • chromium Arch Linux 75.0.3770.142-1

arch linux advisories AVG-1005

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-2019-5848 updated cvss 6.5

chromium-browser: Font sizes may expose sensitive information

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 75.0.3770.142-1.el6_10 Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 75.0.3770.142-1.el6_10 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 75.0.3770.142-1.el6_10 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 75.0.3770.142-1.el6_10
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2019:1930

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

0.49% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 42% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

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

Affected products

  • Google Chrome

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-312 Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information
Technology feeds

References

Sources

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