CVE-2020-15999

9.6 CRITICAL CISA KEV - Actively Exploited

Published: November 03, 2020 Modified: October 24, 2025

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.

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CVSS v3.x Details

0.0 Low Medium High Critical 10.0

Vector String

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

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00016.html

Source: chrome-cve-admin@google.com

Broken Link Mailing List Third Party Advisory

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Nov/33

Source: chrome-cve-admin@google.com

Mailing List Not Applicable Third Party Advisory

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_20.html

Source: chrome-cve-admin@google.com

Third Party Advisory

https://crbug.com/1139963

Source: chrome-cve-admin@google.com

Exploit Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/p/rca-cve-2020-15999.html

Source: chrome-cve-admin@google.com

Exploit Third Party Advisory

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/J3QVIGAAJ4D62YEJAJJWMCCBCOQ6TVL7/

Source: chrome-cve-admin@google.com

Release Notes

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-12

Source: chrome-cve-admin@google.com

Third Party Advisory

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202012-04

Source: chrome-cve-admin@google.com

Third Party Advisory

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-19

Source: chrome-cve-admin@google.com

Third Party Advisory

https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4824

Source: chrome-cve-admin@google.com

Mailing List Third Party Advisory

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00016.html