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CVE-2019-5818

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-5818 describes an uninitialized data vulnerability in Google Chrome versions prior to 74.0.3729.108, also affecting Debian, Fedora, and openSUSE. A remote attacker could exploit this by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted video file, potentially leading to the disclosure of sensitive information from process memory. With a CVSS score of 6.5 (Medium), this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and requires user interaction, but could result in high confidentiality impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or inclusion in the CISA KEV catalog, though it has received some community discussion and media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 74.0.3729.108CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sle-15CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:backports:sle-15:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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

6.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.61%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
73.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0161 is in the 86th percentile among its peer group of 26,234 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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-0:74.0.3729.108-1.el6_10
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2019-5818Moderate

chromium-browser: Uninitialized value in media reader

Apr 23, 2019

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00085.html
chromereleases.googleblog.com / 2019/04/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_23.html
crbug.com / 929962
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CPM7VPE27DUNJLXM4F5PAAEFFWOEND6X
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FKN4GPMBQ3SDXWB4HL45II5CZ7P2E4AI
seclists.org / bugtraq/2019/Aug/19
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201908-18
debian.org / security/2019/dsa-4500