CVE-2019-13723 Use after free in Chrome
A remote attacker with compromised renderer access can exploit heap corruption in WebBluetooth via a crafted HTML page to potentially execute arbitrary code.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2019-13723?
CVE-2019-13723 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 25 Nov 2019. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
Use after free in WebBluetooth in Google Chrome prior to 78.0.3904.108 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-13723?
It affects 6 products.
Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Google Chrome, Opensuse Backports, Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop, Redhat Enterprise Linux Server, Redhat Enterprise Linux Workstation.
How do I fix CVE-2019-13723?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Upgrade to the fixed version. These bugs are found with fuzzing and sanitisers and avoided by memory-safe languages. More about Use after free.
Is CVE-2019-13723 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-13723 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Fedoraproject Fedora
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2019-13723, GHSA-96h9-3p6v-cqh2, UBUNTU-CVE-2019-13723.