CVE-2019-5870 is a critical use-after-free vulnerability in Google Chrome versions prior to 77.0.3865.75, specifically affecting its media component. This flaw allows a remote attacker to potentially achieve a sandbox escape by enticing a user to visit a specially crafted HTML page. With a CVSS score of 9.6, this vulnerability is highly severe, indicating a network-based attack with low complexity that could lead to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no evidence of active exploitation in the wild (KEV) and no public exploit code available in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, suggesting awareness among security researchers.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 77.0.3865.75CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.8 Bluesky, 0.5 Mastodon, and 1.2 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.1 Security Researcher mentions.