CVE-2019-13720
Published 2019-11-25 · Updated 2026-06-17 · Source chrome-cve-admin@google.com
Summary
CVE-2019-13720 is a high-severity (CVSS 8.8) vulnerability in Google Chrome WebAudio. CISA added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on May 23, 2022, which means exploitation in the wild has been confirmed; US federal agencies had to remediate it by June 13, 2022. CISA does not currently list it as used in ransomware campaigns. Google has 76 vulnerabilities in the KEV catalog, 0 of them linked to ransomware.
All 76 known-exploited Google vulnerabilities →Description
Use after free in WebAudio in Google Chrome prior to 78.0.3904.87 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA Known-Exploited Vulnerability
Product: Google — Chrome WebAudio
Name: Google Chrome WebAudio Use-After-Free Vulnerability
Date added: 2022-05-23 · Due: 2022-06-13
Required action: Apply updates per vendor instructions.
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-12/msg00022.html
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/167066/Google-Chrome-78.0.3904.70-Remote-Code-Execution.html
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2019/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_31.html
- https://crbug.com/1019226
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202004-04
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-12/msg00022.html
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/167066/Google-Chrome-78.0.3904.70-Remote-Code-Execution.html
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2019/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_31.html

