Risk Letters

Exploited vulnerability

CVE-2020-15999

TLP:CLEAR

Google Chrome FreeType Heap Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Google Chrome uses FreeType, an open-source software library to render fonts, which contains a heap buffer overflow vulnerability in the function Load_SBit_Png when processing PNG images embedded into fonts. This vulnerability is part of an exploit chain with CVE-2020-17087 on Windows and CVE-2020-16010 on Android.

Facts

  • Vendor: Google
  • Product: Chrome FreeType
  • CVSS: 9.6
  • EPSS (probability of exploitation within 30 days): 63.9 %
  • On CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list since: 3 November 2021
  • First known exploitation: 3 November 2021
  • CISA's deadline for US federal agencies: 17 November 2021
  • Weakness: CWE-787
  • First seen by Risk Letters: 3 November 2021

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Data: NVD (public domain), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, MITRE ATT&CK, AlienVault OTX. NVD