CVE-2019-5847 — Inappropriate implementation in JavaScript in Google Chrome prior to 75

Inappropriate implementation in JavaScript in Google Chrome prior to 75.0.3770.142 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

01What is this vulnerability?

Inappropriate implementation in JavaScript in Google Chrome prior to 75.0.3770.142 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

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: 2024-08-04T20:09:23.839Z

09References

• crbug.com — https://crbug.com/972921
• chromereleases.googleblog.com — https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2019/07/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.…