CVE-2019-13720

Exploitation

Exploited in the wild. Listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2022-05-23. Federal remediation due 2022-06-13.

SSVC decision

• ExploitationactiveCISA reports credible evidence of active exploitation.
• AutomatablenoAt least one step from reconnaissance to exploitation cannot be reliably automated.
• Technical ImpacttotalSuccessful exploitation gives total control of the vulnerable component.

CISA publishes the decision points, not a final SSVC decision. The decision also depends on mission and well-being impact, which is a property of your deployment rather than of the vulnerability.

EPSS probability

49.42% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Equal to or higher than the score of 98.8% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

8.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.

NVD CVSS vector

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

NVD analysis status

Analyzed. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.

Red Hat severity

Important. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

Published

2019-11-25 14:22Z6 YR AGO

Last updated

2025-10-21 23:35Z1 YR AGO

Reserved

2019-07-18

Assigning CNA

Chrome

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

High (CVSS 8.8)

CNA CVSS vector

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

Weaknesses

• CWE-416Use After FreeVariant

Data version

5.1

Document digest

b141c0f4f7def9e96453de7d10c13fb30940187acae37cdf90ea2deeadf7146d

• crbug.comhttps://crbug.com/1019226x_refsource_MISC
• chromereleases.googleblog.comhttps://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2019/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_31.htmlx_refsource_MISC
• lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2019:2664http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-12/msg00022.htmlvendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
• security.gentoo.orgGLSA-202004-04https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202004-04vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
• packetstormsecurity.comhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/167066/Google-Chrome-78.0.3904.70-Remote-Code-Execution.htmlx_refsource_MISC
• www.cisa.govhttps://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2019-13720government-resource