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CVE-2020-15999

UNKNOWN
Published 2020-11-03T00:00:00.000Z
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CVSS Score

V3.1
9.6
/10
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Base Score Metrics
Exploitability: N/A Impact: N/A

EPSS Score

v2023.03.01
0.079
probability
of exploitation in the wild

There is a 7.9% chance that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.

Updated: 2025-01-25
Exploit Probability
Percentile: 0.943
Higher than 94.3% of all CVEs

Attack Vector Metrics

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED

Impact Metrics

Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH

Description

Heap buffer overflow in Freetype in Google Chrome prior to 86.0.4240.111 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

Available Exploits

No exploits available for this CVE.

Related News

No news articles found for this CVE.

Affected Products

Google

Chrome

Affected Versions:

unspecified

Known Exploited Vulnerability

This vulnerability is actively being exploited in the wild

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Remediation Status

Overdue

Due Date

November 17, 2021

Added to KEV

November 3, 2021

Required Action

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Affected Product

Vendor/Project: Google
Product: Chrome FreeType

Ransomware Risk

Known Ransomware Use
KEV Catalog Version: 2025.01.24 Released: January 24, 2025

GitHub Security Advisories

Community-driven vulnerability intelligence from GitHub

✓ GitHub Reviewed MODERATE

Heap buffer overflow in CefSharp

GHSA-pv36-h7jh-qm62

Advisory Details

### Impact A memory corruption bug(Heap overflow) in the FreeType font rendering library. > This can be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code by using specially crafted fonts with embedded PNG images . As per https://www.secpod.com/blog/chrome-zero-day-under-active-exploitation-patch-now/ Google is aware of reports that an exploit for CVE-2020-15999 exists in the wild. ### Patches Upgrade to 85.3.130 or higher ### References - https://www.secpod.com/blog/chrome-zero-day-under-active-exploitation-patch-now/ - https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-releases-chrome-security-update-to-patch-actively-exploited-zero-day/ - https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-15999 - https://magpcss.org/ceforum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=17942 To review the `CEF/Chromium` patch see https://bitbucket.org/chromiumembedded/cef/commits/cd6cbe008b127990036945fb75e7c2c1594ab10d

Affected Packages

NuGet CefSharp.Common
ECOSYSTEM: ≥0 <85.3.130
NuGet CefSharp.Wpf
ECOSYSTEM: ≥0 <85.3.130
NuGet CefSharp.WinForms
ECOSYSTEM: ≥0 <85.3.130
NuGet CefSharp.Wpf.HwndHost
ECOSYSTEM: ≥0 <85.3.130

CVSS Scoring

CVSS Score

5.0

CVSS Vector

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

References

WEB https://github.com/cefsharp/CefSharp/security/advisories/GHSA-pv36-h7jh-qm62
ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-15999
WEB https://www.nuget.org/packages/CefSharp.Wpf.HwndHost
WEB https://www.nuget.org/packages/CefSharp.Wpf
WEB https://www.nuget.org/packages/CefSharp.WinForms
WEB https://www.nuget.org/packages/CefSharp.Common
WEB https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4824
WEB https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240812-0001
WEB https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-19
WEB https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202012-04
WEB https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-12
WEB https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/J3QVIGAAJ4D62YEJAJJWMCCBCOQ6TVL7
WEB https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/J3QVIGAAJ4D62YEJAJJWMCCBCOQ6TVL7
WEB https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/p/rca-cve-2020-15999.html
PACKAGE https://github.com/cefsharp/CefSharp
WEB https://crbug.com/1139963
WEB https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_20.html
WEB http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00016.html
WEB http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Nov/33

Advisory provided by GitHub Security Advisory Database. Published: October 27, 2020, Modified: February 3, 2025

References

https://crbug.com/1139963
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_20.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00016.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/J3QVIGAAJ4D62YEJAJJWMCCBCOQ6TVL7/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-12
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Nov/33
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202012-04
https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4824
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/p/rca-cve-2020-15999.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-19
Published: 2020-11-03T00:00:00.000Z
Last Modified: 2025-02-04T15:00:34.972Z
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