CVE-2019-5780 Code injection in Chrome

What is CVE-2019-5780?

CVE-2019-5780 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 19 Feb 2019. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Insufficient restrictions on what can be done with Apple Events in Google Chrome on macOS prior to 72.0.3626.81 allowed a local attacker to execute JavaScript via Apple Events.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-5780?

It affects 6 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Fedoraproject Fedora, Google Chrome, Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop, Redhat Enterprise Linux Server, Redhat Enterprise Linux Workstation.

How do I fix CVE-2019-5780?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2019-5780 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-5780 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2019-5780, GHSA-jqvp-6g4r-hp7v, UBUNTU-CVE-2019-5780.