Actively exploited · Published Jun 27, 2019 · Assigned by Chrome
CVE-2019-5786
Medium 6.5 Exploited
In plain English
A medium-severity use-after-free in Chrome from Google. Attackers are actively exploiting it in the wild (listed by CISA on May 23, 2022). The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 61.1% (higher than 99.2% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: Metasploit, public proof-of-concept code. Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.
CISA guidance
Apply updates per vendor instructions.
Federal agencies must remediate by Jun 13, 2022.
Official description
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.
Affected packages & fixed versions
| Ecosystem | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alpine:v3.20 | chromium | 72.0.3626.121-r0 | ALPINE-CVE-2019-5786 |
| Alpine:v3.21 | chromium | 72.0.3626.121-r0 | ALPINE-CVE-2019-5786 |
| Alpine:v3.22 | chromium | 72.0.3626.121-r0 | ALPINE-CVE-2019-5786 |
| Alpine:v3.23 | chromium | 72.0.3626.121-r0 | ALPINE-CVE-2019-5786 |
| Alpine:v3.24 | chromium | 72.0.3626.121-r0 | ALPINE-CVE-2019-5786 |
| Debian:12 | chromium | 72.0.3626.121-1 | DEBIAN-CVE-2019-5786 |
| Debian:13 | chromium | 72.0.3626.121-1 | DEBIAN-CVE-2019-5786 |
| Debian:14 | chromium | 72.0.3626.121-1 | DEBIAN-CVE-2019-5786 |
| npm | puppeteer | 1.13.0 | GHSA-c2gp-86p4-5935 |
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-416 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
References
- https://crbug.com/936448 x_refsource_MISC
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2019/03/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html x_refsource_MISC
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2019-5786 government-resource