CVE-2020-15999
Act now ● On CISA KEV — actively exploited
Actively exploited — on the CISA KEV list.
CVSS base
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EPSS — probability of exploitation (30 days)
44.3%
98.7th percentile
CISA KEV
Listed
Added 2021-11-03 · patch by 2021-11-17
Weakness / dates
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Published — · modified —
Timeline
- 2021-11-03 — Added to CISA KEV (actively exploited)
- 2021-11-17 — CISA patch-by deadline
Description
Google Chrome uses FreeType, an open-source software library to render fonts, which contains a heap buffer overflow vulnerability in the function Load_SBit_Png when processing PNG images embedded into fonts. This vulnerability is part of an exploit chain with CVE-2020-17087 on Windows and CVE-2020-16010 on Android.