CVE-2019-5798

Chrome vulnerability

CVSS

6.5

EPSS

3.2%

EPSS pct

87th

Exploited

No known

Lack of correct bounds checking in Skia in Google Chrome prior to 73.0.3683.75 allowed a remote attacker to perform an out of bounds memory read 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:N/A:N

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds Read

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.

Its EPSS score of 3.2% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 87% of all scored CVEs.

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