CVE-2020-15999

CRITICALNVD 9.69.6—
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

Score elevated to 9.6 because this CVE is listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2021-11-03), indicating real-world exploitation has been confirmed by US federal agencies. NVD baseline CVSS 9.6 retained for reference. Confidence: HIGH.

Triggered by: CISA KEV (actively exploited)
Sources: cisa_kev, epss, nvd
Trending — 3 sources updated this weekExploited in the wild
9.6EG
EchelonGraph verdictPatch nowTreat as an emergency — this is being exploited.
  • Actively exploited in the wild (CISA-KEV)
CISA-KEV: ExploitedEPSS PROB: 64%CVSS: 9.6Exploit: cisa kev · ssvc active · epss top5pct · epss high · public exploitExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

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.

CVSS v3
9.6
EG Score
9.6CRITICALhigh confidence
EG Risk
83
EG Risk 83/100CISA SSVC

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
Severity96% × 45%
Exploitation100% × 40%
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA SSVC: Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
EPSS PROB
64%
EPSS %ILE
99th
KEV
⚠ Exploited

CISA SSVCTrack at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.

Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it: high means the affected system is essential to your organisation's mission, or its compromise could cause irreversible harm to people. CISA's decision table

Published

November 3, 2020

Last Modified

October 24, 2025

Advisory Details (9)

Auto-updated Oct 2, 2026
⚠️ Active exploitation confirmed. Patch available.
generic

[SECURITY] [DSA 4824-1] chromium security update

https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4824
generic

Opera: Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202401-19) — Gentoo security

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-19
generic

Mozilla Thunderbird: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 202012-04) — Gentoo security

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

Chromium, Google Chrome: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 202011-12) — Gentoo security

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

[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: freetype-2.10.0-4.fc31 - package-announce - Fedora mailing-lists

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/J3QVIGAAJ4D62YEJAJJWMCCBCOQ6TVL7/
generic🔴 Active Exploitation

Project Zero: CVE-2020-15999: FreeType Heap Buffer Overflow in Load_SBit_Png

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/p/rca-cve-2020-15999.html
generic
https://crbug.com/1139963
generic🔴 Active Exploitation

Chrome Releases: Stable Channel Update for Desktop

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

Full Disclosure: TCMalloc viewer/dumper - TCMalloc Inspector Tool

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

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2020-15999(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Patch Availability(8)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
ubuntulibfreetype6-udeb (2.8.1-2ubuntu2.1) @ bionic2026-10-10ubuntu
ubuntulibfreetype6 (2.5.2-1ubuntu2.8+esm2) @ trusty2026-10-10ubuntu
redhatfreetype-0:2.9.1-4.el8_0.12020-11-05redhat
redhatfreetype-0:2.9.1-4.el8_2.12020-11-05redhat
redhatfreetype-0:2.9.1-4.el8_3.12020-11-05redhat
redhatfreetype-0:2.9.1-4.el8_1.12020-11-05redhat
redhatfreetype-0:2.8-14.el7_9.12020-11-04redhat
redhatchromium-browser-0:86.0.4240.111-1.el6_102020-10-26redhat

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

(27 across 23 ecosystems)
NuGet(4)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
CefSharp.Common31.0.0-pre1 ... 85.3.121-pre (85 versions)
  • every version up to 85.3.130: fixed in 85.3.130
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CefSharp.WinForms1.25.3 ... 85.3.121-pre (84 versions)
  • every version up to 85.3.130: fixed in 85.3.130
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CefSharp.Wpf1.25.2-perlun0 ... 85.3.121-pre (92 versions)
  • every version up to 85.3.130: fixed in 85.3.130
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CefSharp.Wpf.HwndHost83.4.20-pre, 84.4.10, 85.3.121
  • every version up to 85.3.130: fixed in 85.3.130
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Debian:10(2)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
chromium73.0.3683.75-1 ... 87.0.4280.88-0.3 (47 versions)
  • every version up to 87.0.4280.88-0.4~deb10u1: fixed in 87.0.4280.88-0.4~deb10u1
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freetype2.9.1-3, 2.9.1-3+deb10u1
  • every version up to 2.9.1-3+deb10u2: fixed in 2.9.1-3+deb10u2
—
Alpine:v3.10(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
freetype—
  • 2.6.0 up to 2.10.0-r1: fixed in 2.10.0-r1
—
Alpine:v3.11(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
freetype—
  • 2.6.0 up to 2.10.1-r1: fixed in 2.10.1-r1
—
Alpine:v3.12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
freetype—
  • 2.6.0 up to 2.10.4-r0: fixed in 2.10.4-r0
—
Alpine:v3.13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
freetype—
  • 2.6.0 up to 2.10.4-r0: fixed in 2.10.4-r0
—
Alpine:v3.14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
freetype—
  • 2.6.0 up to 2.10.4-r0: fixed in 2.10.4-r0
—
Alpine:v3.15(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
freetype—
  • 2.6.0 up to 2.10.4-r0: fixed in 2.10.4-r0
—
Alpine:v3.16(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
freetype—
  • 2.6.0 up to 2.10.4-r0: fixed in 2.10.4-r0
—
Alpine:v3.17(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
freetype—
  • 2.6.0 up to 2.10.4-r0: fixed in 2.10.4-r0
—
Alpine:v3.18(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
freetype—
  • 2.6.0 up to 2.10.4-r0: fixed in 2.10.4-r0
—
Alpine:v3.19(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
freetype—
  • 2.6.0 up to 2.10.4-r0: fixed in 2.10.4-r0
—
Alpine:v3.20(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
freetype—
  • 2.6.0 up to 2.10.4-r0: fixed in 2.10.4-r0
—
Alpine:v3.21(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
freetype—
  • 2.6.0 up to 2.10.4-r0: fixed in 2.10.4-r0
—
Alpine:v3.22(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
freetype—
  • 2.6.0 up to 2.10.4-r0: fixed in 2.10.4-r0
—
Alpine:v3.23(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
freetype—
  • 2.6.0 up to 2.10.4-r0: fixed in 2.10.4-r0
—
Alpine:v3.24(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
freetype—
  • 2.6.0 up to 2.10.4-r0: fixed in 2.10.4-r0
—
Alpine:v3.9(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
freetype—
  • 2.6.0 up to 2.9.1-r3: fixed in 2.9.1-r3
—
Debian:11(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
freetype—
  • every version up to 2.10.2+dfsg-4: fixed in 2.10.2+dfsg-4
—
Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
freetype—
  • every version up to 2.10.2+dfsg-4: fixed in 2.10.2+dfsg-4
—
Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
freetype—
  • every version up to 2.10.2+dfsg-4: fixed in 2.10.2+dfsg-4
—
Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
freetype—
  • every version up to 2.10.2+dfsg-4: fixed in 2.10.2+dfsg-4
—
Debian:9(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
freetype2.6.3-3.2, 2.6.3-3.2+deb9u1
  • every version up to 2.6.3-3.2+deb9u2: fixed in 2.6.3-3.2+deb9u2
—

Weakness Classification(2)

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

Additional Vendor Advisories

(8)

Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 52× in last 7d / 245× 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 1,044 total refreshes for this CVE.

  1. 2026-10-10 19:56 UTCEPSS rescore
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  73. 2026-09-27 21:51 UTCCISA KEV update
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Publicly available exploits

(2 references)

Working exploit code is in the public domain (2 GitHub PoCs). Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly — public PoCs typically lead to mass-exploitation within 24-72 hours.

  • GitHub PoCMarmeus/CVE-2020-15999
    First seen Dec 30, 2020

    Todos los materiales necesarios para la PoC en Chrome y ftview

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCoxfemale/CVE-2020-15999
    First seen Nov 4, 2020

    CVE-2020-15999

    Open source ↗

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Frequently asked(6)

What is CVE-2020-15999?
CVE-2020-15999 is a critical vulnerability published on November 3, 2020. 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.
When was CVE-2020-15999 disclosed?
CVE-2020-15999 was first published on November 3, 2020, 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-2020-15999 actively exploited?
Yes. CISA added CVE-2020-15999 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on November 3, 2021, affecting Google Chrome FreeType. KEV listing indicates confirmed exploitation in the wild; this CVE warrants immediate attention. A fix is available. Apply it.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2020-15999?
CVE-2020-15999 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.6 (NVD).
Which products are affected by CVE-2020-15999?
CVE-2020-15999 affects Google Chrome FreeType. The affected packages EchelonGraph has on record, with version ranges, are listed in the Affected Packages section of this page.
How do I remediate CVE-2020-15999?
A fix for CVE-2020-15999 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2020-15999 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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