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CVE-2019-5796

36
FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-5796 describes a data race vulnerability in the extensions guest view component of Google Chrome prior to version 73.0.3683.75, impacting various Google and openSUSE products. This high-severity flaw (CVSS 7.5) could allow a remote attacker to achieve heap corruption through a crafted HTML page, leading to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not currently on CISA's KEV catalog, an ExploitDB entry (EDB-46566) exists, and the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion and media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 73.0.3683.75CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
15.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:opensuse:backports_sle:15.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
15.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
15.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
42.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:42.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.6
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.67%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
90.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-46566 · Mar 19, 2019
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0467 is in the 59th percentile among its peer group of 1,572 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.4 Bluesky, 0.2 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.6 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 SupplementaryFixed in: chromium-browser-0:73.0.3683.75-1.el6_10
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2019-5796Moderate

chromium-browser: Race condition in Extensions

Mar 12, 2019

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00085.html
chromereleases.googleblog.com / 2019/03/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_12.html
crbug.com / 918861