CVE-2019-5786
Google Chrome Blink Use-After-Free Vulnerability
Does this matter?
Known to be exploited in the wild (CISA KEV, CISA remediation deadline 13 June 2022). Treat as an emergency change: patch or isolate now, then hunt for prior compromise.
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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 6.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 61.09% probability · 99th percentile
- Public exploits
- 1 in Exploit-DB · verified · first 8 May 2019
- CISA KEV
- Listed 23 May 2022 · due 13 June 2022
- Weakness
- CWE-416
- Affected
- google/chrome
- Source
- chrome-cve-admin@google.com
EPSS moved from 61.1% on 26 September 2026 to 61.1% on 30 October 2026. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”.
CISA notes
Apply updates per vendor instructions. https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-5786
Public exploits (1)
Entries in Exploit-DB that cite this CVE. Links go to the Exploit-DB page and to the file in the public repository; nothing is hosted here. A verified tick means the Exploit-DB team confirmed the exploit works against the stated version.
References
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2019/03/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.htmlRelease Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://crbug.com/936448Exploit, Issue Tracking
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2019/03/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.htmlRelease Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://crbug.com/936448Exploit, Issue Tracking
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2019-5786US Government Resource
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.