CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability
This vulnerability is actively exploited in the wild and listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.
Remediation Deadline: Nov 17, 2021
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.
EPSS — Exploit Probability
92.9%
Higher than 99.8% of all CVEs
Required Action
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-15999
Risk Assessment
HIGHIn CISA KEV
High EPSS
Details
- Severity
- High
- EPSS
- 92.9%
- CISA KEV
- Yes
- Ransomware
- Unknown
- Articles
- 0
Timeline
Published
Nov 3, 2021
Added to KEV
Nov 3, 2021
Remediation Due
Nov 17, 2021