CVE-2019-5796 Race condition in Chrome

What is CVE-2019-5796?

CVE-2019-5796 is a high-severity vulnerability in Google Chrome, published on 23 May 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

Data race in extensions guest view in Google Chrome prior to 73.0.3683.75 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

Weakness: CWE-787, CWE-362

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-5796?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Google Chrome, Opensuse Backports Sle, Opensuse Leap.

How do I fix CVE-2019-5796?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2019-5796 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2019-5796 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

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• CVE-2026-87491 Google Chromium V8 Out of Bounds Write Exploited High 8.8
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All Google Chrome vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2019-5796, GHSA-3hfh-w64f-p273, UBUNTU-CVE-2019-5796.