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CVE-2019-5786: Google Chrome Blink Use-After-Free Vulnerability

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: yes — in CISA KEV since 2022-05-23
• EPSS: 61.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-06-27 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-416

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 products

• Google Chrome: before 72.0.3626.121 — fixed in 72.0.3626.121

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Google Chrome 72.0.3626.121. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2019/03/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
• https://crbug.com/936448
• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2019/03/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
• https://crbug.com/936448
• https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2019-5786

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