Coverage › CVE-2020-15999
CVE-2020-15999 Unmapped
Google Chrome FreeType Heap Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
- Vendor / product
- Google — Chrome FreeType
- Description (CISA)
- 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.
- Added to KEV
- 2021-11-03
- Due date
- 2021-11-17
- Required action
- Apply updates per vendor instructions.
- Known ransomware use
- Unknown
- CWE
- CWE-787
- CISA notes
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-15999
- Elsewhere
- cve.org · NVD · CISA KEV · JSON
ATT&CK techniques
No public source states how this vulnerability is exploited in ATT&CK terms.
The only authoritative CVE → ATT&CK mapping in the open — CTID's Mappings Explorer, pinned to a KEV snapshot of 2025-07-28 and ATT&CK 16.1 — does not include CVE-2020-15999. CISA's catalogue carries no technique field. kevmap does not infer techniques from the CWE (CWE-787) — here is why — and does not guess.
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