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Vulnerability record

CVE-2020-15999

Google Chrome FreeType Heap Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

CriticalExploitation confirmedCISA KEV
What should I do?

This vulnerability is in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog: attackers are using it. If you run Chrome FreeType, fix it now.

CISA required action: Apply updates per vendor instructions.

US federal civilian agencies must remediate by Nov 17, 2021.

Patch status

No official fix confirmed yet

Until a fix ships, follow the vendor's mitigations and CISA's required action, limit exposure of affected systems, and watch this record for a patch.

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.

Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database. Official vulnerability data, reproduced as published.

Affected products

ProductVendorAffected versionsFixed inSource
ChromeGoogle< 86.0.4240.11186.0.4240.111NVD
Chrome FreeTypeGoogle——KEV
FreeTypeFreeType>= 2.6.0, < 2.10.42.10.4NVD

Sources: NVD = NIST National Vulnerability Database; KEV = CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

Intelligence timeline

Developments from the last 30 days, newest first.

  1. CVSS scoredUpdateKEV

    CVE-2020-15999 scored CVSS 9.6: Google Chrome FreeType, Google Chrome FreeType Heap Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

    CISA lists this as exploited in the wild. Unpatched Chrome FreeType systems are exposed to active attacks now.

    Basis: NIST National Vulnerability Database

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