CVE-2020-15999
CRITICAL severity · CVSS 9.6 · Out-of-bounds write · actively exploited (CISA KEV)
9.6CVSS CRITICAL exploited
Actively exploited in the wild (CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities).
Added to KEV 2021-11-03. US federal agencies must patch by 2021-11-17.
Summary
Heap buffer overflow in Freetype in Google Chrome prior to 86.0.4240.111 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionRequired
Confidentiality impactHigh
Integrity impactHigh
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)44%
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
This vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild — patch affected products urgently. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00016.htmlAdvisory
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Nov/33Advisory
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_20.htmlAdvisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/J3QVIGAAJ4D62YEJAJJWMCCBCOQ6TVL7/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-12Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202012-04Advisory
- https://crbug.com/1139963Advisory
- https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/p/rca-cve-2020-15999.htmlAdvisory