Use-after-free in content delivery manager in Google Chrome prior to 78.0.3904.70 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap cor…

published 2020-01-03 6y ago modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also EUVD-2019-5181

cvss: 6.5; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.7%; EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 54%
public exploits: 0; none known

Use-after-free in content delivery manager in Google Chrome prior to 78.0.3904.70 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1 distros 2

Google Chrome 78.0.3904.70

debian ubuntu

chromium Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 78.0.3904.87-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2019-13765

chromium-browser Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 79.0.3945.79-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
chromium-browser Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 79.0.3945.79-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2019-13765

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Exploit prediction

0.72% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 54% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

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: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-665 Improper Initialization
CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write

Technology feeds

Google Chrome rss critical rss

References

Sources

CVE List CVE-2019-13765
NVD CVE-2019-13765

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