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CVE-2019-5781

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-5781 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting Google Chrome prior to version 72.0.3626.81, as well as Debian, Fedora, and Red Hat distributions. It involves incorrect handling of confusable characters in the Omnibox, allowing a remote attacker to spoof the URL bar's contents through a crafted domain name. The attack requires user interaction (UI:R) and has a high impact on integrity (I:H), but no impact on confidentiality or availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, and no public exploit code is available, though it has received some community and media attention.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 72.0.3626.81CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.47%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
71.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0147 is in the 83rd percentile among its peer group of 26,236 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 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-0:72.0.3626.81-1.el6_10
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2019-5781Low

chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in Omnibox

Jan 29, 2019

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2019:0309
chromereleases.googleblog.com / 2019/01/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
crbug.com / 896725
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JVFHYCJGMZQUKYSIE2BXE4NLEGFGUXU5
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZQOP53LXXPRGD4N5OBKGQTSMFXT32LF6
debian.org / security/2019/dsa-4395
securityfocus.com / bid/106767