THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2019-5789
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2019-5789

Chrome vulnerability

CVSS
8.8
EPSS
7.3%
EPSS pct
94th
Exploited
No known
An integer overflow that leads to a use-after-free in WebMIDI in Google Chrome on Windows prior to 73.0.3683.75 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML page.
Affected vendor
Google
Affected product
Chrome
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2019-05-23

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 7.3% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 94% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2019-5789

  • Confirm whether Google Chrome is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2019-5789.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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