CVE-2019-5786

MEDIUMNVD 6.59.0▲
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

Score elevated to 9.0 because this CVE is listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2022-05-23), indicating real-world exploitation has been confirmed by US federal agencies. NVD baseline CVSS 6.5 retained for reference. Confidence: HIGH.

Triggered by: CISA KEV (actively exploited)
Sources: cisa_kev, epss, nvd
Trending — 4 sources updated this weekExploited in the wild
6.5
EchelonGraph verdictPatch nowTreat as an emergency — this is being exploited.
  • Actively exploited in the wild (CISA-KEV)
CISA-KEV: ExploitedEPSS: 62%CVSS: 6.5Exploit: NoneExposed: 0

A fix is available — apply it.

Object lifetime issue in Blink in Google Chrome prior to 72.0.3626.121 allowed a remote attacker to potentially perform out of bounds memory access via a crafted HTML page.

CVSS v3
6.5
EG Score
9.0(high)
EG Risk
81(Attend)
EG Risk 81/100SSVC: Attend

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity90% × 45%
Exploitation100% × 40%
Automatability0% × 15%
Action: Remediate soon — notable exploitation risk.
EPSS
99.1%
KEV
⚠ Exploited

Published

June 27, 2019

Last Modified

October 24, 2025

Advisory Details (3)

Auto-updated Jun 12, 2026
⚠️ Active exploitation confirmed. Patch available. Sources: cisa.
cisa Patch Available🔴 Active Exploitation

Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog | CISA

Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog | CISA. Listed in CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2019-5786
generic
https://crbug.com/936448
generic🔴 Active Exploitation

Chrome Releases: Stable Channel Update for Desktop

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2019/03/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html

Patch Availability(1)

Vendor / EcosystemFixed in / PatchReleasedSource
redhatchromium-browser-0:72.0.3626.121-1.el6_102019-03-11redhat

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(1 across 1 ecosystem)
npm(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFixed inDependents
puppeteer—1.13.0—

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

All Vendor Advisories

(1)

Every vendor that published an advisory referencing this CVE — pulled from our cve_vendor_advisories aggregation. Click any row for the vendor's original advisory page.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 52× in last 7d / 232× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 436 total refreshes for this CVE.

  1. 2026-07-23 14:15 UTCEPSS rescore
  2. 2026-07-23 01:46 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-07-22 23:10 UTCVendor advisory
  4. 2026-07-22 22:27 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-07-22 19:40 UTCCISA KEV update
  6. 2026-07-22 19:25 UTCVendor advisory
  7. 2026-07-22 15:40 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-07-22 15:40 UTCVendor advisory
  9. 2026-07-22 14:05 UTCEPSS rescore
  10. 2026-07-22 11:53 UTCVendor advisory
  11. 2026-07-22 08:08 UTCVendor advisory
  12. 2026-07-22 04:19 UTCVendor advisory
  13. 2026-07-22 00:28 UTCVendor advisory
  14. 2026-07-21 20:27 UTCVendor advisory
  15. 2026-07-21 16:40 UTCEG score recompute
  16. 2026-07-21 16:40 UTCVendor advisory
  17. 2026-07-21 15:22 UTCEPSS rescore
  18. 2026-07-21 15:22 UTCEPSS rescore
  19. 2026-07-21 14:37 UTCCISA KEV update
  20. 2026-07-21 12:55 UTCVendor advisory
  21. 2026-07-21 09:08 UTCVendor advisory
  22. 2026-07-21 05:22 UTCVendor advisory
  23. 2026-07-21 01:37 UTCVendor advisory
  24. 2026-07-20 21:51 UTCVendor advisory
  25. 2026-07-20 18:07 UTCEG score recompute
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  1. 2026-07-20 18:07 UTCVendor advisory
  2. 2026-07-20 17:04 UTCEPSS rescore
  3. 2026-07-20 14:21 UTCVendor advisory
  4. 2026-07-20 10:36 UTCVendor advisory
  5. 2026-07-20 06:49 UTCVendor advisory
  6. 2026-07-20 02:30 UTCVendor advisory
  7. 2026-07-19 22:44 UTCVendor advisory
  8. 2026-07-19 18:59 UTCVendor advisory
  9. 2026-07-19 15:14 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-07-19 15:14 UTCVendor advisory
  11. 2026-07-19 14:28 UTCEPSS rescore
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  13. 2026-07-19 11:29 UTCVendor advisory
  14. 2026-07-19 07:44 UTCVendor advisory
  15. 2026-07-19 03:59 UTCVendor advisory
  16. 2026-07-19 00:14 UTCVendor advisory
  17. 2026-07-18 20:27 UTCVendor advisory
  18. 2026-07-18 16:41 UTCVendor advisory
  19. 2026-07-18 12:55 UTCEG score recompute
  20. 2026-07-18 12:55 UTCVendor advisory
  21. 2026-07-18 10:02 UTCEPSS rescore
  22. 2026-07-18 09:10 UTCVendor advisory
  23. 2026-07-18 05:24 UTCVendor advisory
  24. 2026-07-18 01:38 UTCVendor advisory
  25. 2026-07-17 21:53 UTCVendor advisory
  26. 2026-07-17 18:08 UTCVendor advisory
  27. 2026-07-17 14:23 UTCVendor advisory
  28. 2026-07-17 10:38 UTCVendor advisory
  29. 2026-07-17 06:53 UTCVendor advisory
  30. 2026-07-17 03:08 UTCVendor advisory
  31. 2026-07-16 23:23 UTCVendor advisory
  32. 2026-07-16 19:38 UTCVendor advisory
  33. 2026-07-16 17:04 UTCCISA KEV update
  34. 2026-07-16 15:53 UTCVendor advisory
  35. 2026-07-16 12:08 UTCVendor advisory
  36. 2026-07-16 08:22 UTCVendor advisory
  37. 2026-07-16 04:37 UTCVendor advisory
  38. 2026-07-16 00:52 UTCVendor advisory
  39. 2026-07-15 21:07 UTCVendor advisory
  40. 2026-07-15 17:22 UTCVendor advisory
  41. 2026-07-15 16:55 UTCEPSS rescore
  42. 2026-07-15 16:49 UTCCISA KEV update
  43. 2026-07-15 15:04 UTCCISA KEV update
  44. 2026-07-15 13:34 UTCVendor advisory
  45. 2026-07-15 09:47 UTCVendor advisory
  46. 2026-07-15 06:02 UTCVendor advisory
  47. 2026-07-15 02:16 UTCVendor advisory
  48. 2026-07-14 22:30 UTCVendor advisory
  49. 2026-07-14 18:45 UTCVendor advisory
  50. 2026-07-14 18:05 UTCCISA KEV update
  51. 2026-07-14 14:58 UTCVendor advisory
  52. 2026-07-14 11:13 UTCVendor advisory
  53. 2026-07-14 07:25 UTCVendor advisory
  54. 2026-07-14 03:40 UTCVendor advisory
  55. 2026-07-13 23:55 UTCVendor advisory
  56. 2026-07-13 22:27 UTCEPSS rescore
  57. 2026-07-13 22:27 UTCEPSS rescore
  58. 2026-07-13 20:10 UTCVendor advisory
  59. 2026-07-13 17:07 UTCCISA KEV update
  60. 2026-07-13 16:24 UTCVendor advisory
  61. 2026-07-13 12:37 UTCVendor advisory
  62. 2026-07-13 08:52 UTCVendor advisory
  63. 2026-07-13 06:10 UTCEPSS rescore
  64. 2026-07-13 06:10 UTCEPSS rescore
  65. 2026-07-13 05:06 UTCVendor advisory
  66. 2026-07-13 01:20 UTCVendor advisory
  67. 2026-07-12 21:34 UTCVendor advisory
  68. 2026-07-12 17:48 UTCVendor advisory
  69. 2026-07-12 14:04 UTCVendor advisory
  70. 2026-07-12 10:18 UTCVendor advisory
  71. 2026-07-12 06:32 UTCVendor advisory
  72. 2026-07-12 05:44 UTCEPSS rescore
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  74. 2026-07-12 02:47 UTCVendor advisory
  75. 2026-07-11 23:02 UTCVendor advisory

Publicly available exploits

(3 references)

Working exploit code is in the public domain (1 Metasploit module) (1 GitHub PoC) (1 Exploit-DB entry). Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly — public PoCs typically lead to mass-exploitation within 24-72 hours.

  • Exploit-DBEDB-46812✓ verified
    First seen May 8, 2019

    Google Chrome 72.0.3626.119 - 'FileReader' Use-After-Free (Metasploit)

    Open source ↗
  • Metasploitexploit/windows/browser/chrome_filereader_uaf✓ verified
    First seen Mar 21, 2019

    Chrome 72.0.3626.119 FileReader UaF exploit for Windows 7 x86

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCexodusintel/CVE-2019-5786
    First seen Mar 20, 2019

    FileReader Exploit

    Open source ↗

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Frequently asked(6)

What is CVE-2019-5786?
CVE-2019-5786 is a medium vulnerability published on June 27, 2019. Object lifetime issue in Blink in Google Chrome prior to 72.0.3626.121 allowed a remote attacker to potentially perform out of bounds memory access via a crafted HTML page.
When was CVE-2019-5786 disclosed?
CVE-2019-5786 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on June 27, 2019, with the most recent update on October 24, 2025. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2019-5786 actively exploited?
Yes. CISA added CVE-2019-5786 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on May 23, 2022, affecting Google Chrome Blink. KEV listing indicates confirmed exploitation in the wild; this CVE warrants immediate patching attention.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2019-5786?
CVE-2019-5786 has a CVSS v3 base score of 6.5 (NVD). EchelonGraph synthesises NVD + CISA KEV + FIRST EPSS + GHSA into a combined EG score of 9.0.
Which products are affected by CVE-2019-5786?
CVE-2019-5786 affects Google Chrome Blink. The full affected-products list, including version ranges and fixed versions, is shown in the Affected Packages section of this page.
How do I remediate CVE-2019-5786?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2019-5786, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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