Use-After-Free in puppeteer

MEDIUM 6.5EXPLOITED (CISA KEV)CVE-2019-5786 · GHSA-c2gp-86p4-5935 · Published 27/06/2019 · updated 17/06/2026

Google Chrome Blink Use-After-Free Vulnerability. Actively exploited: CISA added this vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 23/05/2022. Patch affected systems as an emergency.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
chrome google	`< 72.0.3626.121`	`72.0.3626.121`
puppeteer npm	`< 1.13.0`	`1.13.0`

Description

Versions of puppeteer prior to 1.13.0 are vulnerable to the Use-After-Free vulnerability in Chromium (CVE-2019-5786). The Chromium FileReader API is vulnerable to Use-After-Free which may lead to Remote Code Execution.

Recommendation

Upgrade to version 1.13.0 or later.

NVD description

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.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-5786 · ADVISORY
GoogleChrome/puppeteer · WEB
blog.exodusintel.com/2019/03/20/cve-2019-5786-analysis-and-exploitation · WEB
chromereleases.googleblog.com/2019/03/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html · WEB
crbug.com/936448 · WEB
GoogleChrome/puppeteer · PACKAGE
snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-PUPPETEER-174321 · WEB
npmjs.com/advisories/824 · WEB
cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog · US Government Resource
CISA KEV · CVE-2019-5786

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