CVE-2019-13721 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Use after free in PDFium in Google Chrome prior to 78.0.3904.87 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Google	Chrome
Redhat	Rhel Extras

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Package	CPE	Advisory	Released Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary
chromium-browser-0:78.0.3904.87-1.el6_10	cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_extras:6	RHSA-2019:3775	2019-11-07T00:00:00Z

References

Link	Providers
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-12/msg00022.html
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2019/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_31.html
https://crbug.com/1013868
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-13721
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-13721

History

Thu, 28 May 2026 19:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Chrome

Published: 2019-11-25T14:22:55.000Z

Updated: 2026-05-28T18:34:38.036Z

Reserved: 2019-07-18T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2019-13721

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-05T00:05:43.930Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2019-11-25T15:15:33.963

Modified: 2026-06-17T02:17:17.467

Link: CVE-2019-13721

Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2019-10-12T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2019-13721 - Bugzilla

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