CVE-2019-13706 — Out of bounds memory access in PDFium in Google Chrome prior to 78

Out of bounds memory access in PDFium in Google Chrome prior to 78.0.3904.70 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted PDF file.

01What is this vulnerability?

Out of bounds memory access in PDFium in Google Chrome prior to 78.0.3904.70 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted PDF file.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Google	Chrome	unspecified

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2019-11-25T14:22:55.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T00:05:42.200Z

09References

• chromereleases.googleblog.com — https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2019/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_…
• crbug.com — https://crbug.com/1001159
• lists.opensuse.org — http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00008.html