CVE-2020-15999

CRITICALCISA KEV

9.6

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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score9.6

SeverityCRITICAL

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

Attack VectorNETWORK

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredNONE

User InteractionREQUIRED

Published11/3/2020

Last Modified10/24/2025

Sourcekev

Honeypot Sightings0

CISA KEV

VendorGoogle

ProductChrome FreeType

Vulnerability NameGoogle Chrome FreeType Heap Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

KEV Date Added2021-11-03

Remediation Due Date2021-11-17

Ransomware UseUnknown

Affected Products

debian:debian_linuxfedoraproject:fedorafreetype:freetypegoogle:chromenetapp:ontap_select_deploy_administration_utilityopensuse:backports_sle

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-787CWE-120

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00016.html(chrome-cve-admin@google.com)

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Nov/33(chrome-cve-admin@google.com)

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_20.html(chrome-cve-admin@google.com)

https://crbug.com/1139963(chrome-cve-admin@google.com)

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/p/rca-cve-2020-15999.html(chrome-cve-admin@google.com)

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/J3QVIGAAJ4D62YEJAJJWMCCBCOQ6TVL7/(chrome-cve-admin@google.com)

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-12(chrome-cve-admin@google.com)

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202012-04(chrome-cve-admin@google.com)

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-19(chrome-cve-admin@google.com)

https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4824(chrome-cve-admin@google.com)

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00016.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Nov/33(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_20.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://crbug.com/1139963(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/p/rca-cve-2020-15999.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/J3QVIGAAJ4D62YEJAJJWMCCBCOQ6TVL7/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-12(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202012-04(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-19(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240812-0001/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4824(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2020-15999(134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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