CVE-2020-15999

Known Exploited (CISA KEV)CRITICAL

9.6

CVSS Severity Score

EPSS Score60.5380%

EPSS Percentile93.98th

PublishedNov 3, 2020

Last ModifiedOct 24, 2025

Vulnerability Description

Heap buffer overflow in Freetype in Google Chrome prior to 86.0.4240.111 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

Affected Platforms (CPE)

📦

Google

Chrome

< 86.0.4240.111

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Freetype

>= 2.6.0 and < 2.10.4

💻

Debian

Debian Linux

= 10.0

💻

Fedoraproject

Fedora

= 31

📦

Opensuse

Backports Sle

= 15.0

📦

Netapp

Ontap Select Deploy Administration Utility

All versions

References & Advisories

🔗 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00016.html

🔗 http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Nov/33

🔗 https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_20.html

🔗 https://crbug.com/1139963

🔗 https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/p/rca-cve-2020-15999.html

🔗 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/J3QVIGAAJ4D62YEJAJJWMCCBCOQ6TVL7/

🔗 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-12

🔗 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202012-04