CVE-2019-13700

Publication date 25 November 2019

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

Out of bounds memory access in the gamepad API in Google Chrome prior to 78.0.3904.70 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
chromium-browser	19.10 eoan	Fixed 79.0.3945.79-0ubuntu0.19.10.2
	19.04 disco	Fixed 78.0.3904.70-0ubuntu0.19.04.4
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 78.0.3904.70-0ubuntu0.18.04.2
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 78.0.3904.70-0ubuntu0.16.04.2
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Notes

alexmurray

The Debian chromium source package is called chromium-browser in Ubuntu

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 8.8 · High

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	8.8 · High
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-13700