Use after free in PDFium in Google Chrome prior to 76.0.3809.87 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a craf…

published 2019-11-25 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2019-15431

cvss: 5.5; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.6%; EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 48%
public exploits: 0; none known

Use after free in PDFium in Google Chrome prior to 76.0.3809.87 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted PDF file.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1 distros 5

Google Chrome 76.0.3809.87

debian ubuntu red hat opensuse arch linux

chromium Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 76.0.3809.87-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2019-5860

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

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2019-5860

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chromium-browser RHEL 6 EXTRAS 76.0.3809.87-1.el6_10

red hat advisories RHSA-2019:2427

chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 93.0.4577.82-1.1
chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 113.0.5672.92-1.1
chromium Package Hub 12 SP3 78.0.3904.87-10.1
chromium Package Hub 15 SP1 76.0.3809.87-bp151.3.3.3
chromium Package Hub 15 76.0.3809.87-bp150.220.1
chromium openSUSE Leap 15.1 76.0.3809.87-lp151.2.15.1
chromium openSUSE Leap 15.0 76.0.3809.87-lp150.224.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10681-1 openSUSE-SU-2024:12948-1 openSUSE-SU-2019:2447-1 openSUSE-SU-2019:1901-1 openSUSE-SU-2019:1853-1 openSUSE-SU-2019:1849-1

chromium Arch Linux 76.0.3809.87-1

arch linux advisories AVG-1013

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-2019-5860 updated 2026-06-28 cvss 8.8

chromium-browser: Use-after-free in PDFium

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 76.0.3809.87-1.el6_10 Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 76.0.3809.87-1.el6_10 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 76.0.3809.87-1.el6_10 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 76.0.3809.87-1.el6_10
fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2019:2427

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Exploit prediction

0.59% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 48% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.1	5.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/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

Affected products

Google Chrome

Classification

Weakness

CWE-416 Use After Free
CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write

Technology feeds

Google Chrome rss critical rss

References

Sources

CVE List CVE-2019-5860
NVD CVE-2019-5860

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Summary