CVE-2019-5858 Code injection in Chrome

What is CVE-2019-5858?

CVE-2019-5858 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in Google Chrome, 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

Incorrect security UI in MacOS services integration in Google Chrome on OS X prior to 76.0.3809.87 allowed a local attacker to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML page.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-5858?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Chrome.

How do I fix CVE-2019-5858?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

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

Is CVE-2019-5858 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-5858 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2020-16010 Google Chrome for Android UI Heap Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.6
• CVE-2026-87491 Google Chromium V8 Out of Bounds Write Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2026-85046 Google Chromium V8 Type Confusion Exploited High 8.8

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2019-5858, GHSA-8cjc-5jv5-fj8c, UBUNTU-CVE-2019-5858.