CVE-2019-5878 is a use-after-free vulnerability in the V8 JavaScript engine within Google Chrome prior to version 77.0.3865.75. This high-severity flaw (CVSS 8.8) allows a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption and achieve high impact to confidentiality, integrity, and availability through a crafted HTML page. While there is no known active exploitation (KEV) or public exploit code (Metasploit, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness and potential for future exploitation.
| 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:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.1 Security Researcher mentions.