CVE-2016-5165

MEDIUM EXPLOITED

Google Chrome < 52.0.2743.116 - XSS

Title source: rule

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Developer Tools (aka DevTools) subsystem in Google Chrome before 53.0.2785.89 on Windows and OS X and before 53.0.2785.92 on Linux allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the settings parameter in a chrome-devtools-frontend.appspot.com URL's query string.

References (12)

[Vendor Advisory] http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1854.html

[Issue Tracking] https://crbug.com/618037

[Mailing List] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-09/msg00003.html

[Mailing List] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-09/msg00004.html

[Mailing List] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-09/msg00008.html

[Mailing List] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-09/msg00073.html

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92717

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036729

[Patch] https://codereview.chromium.org/2177983004

[Release Notes, Vendor Advisory] https://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/08/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_31.html

[Third Party Advisory] http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3660

[Third Party Advisory] https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201610-09

Scores

CVSS v3 6.1

EPSS 0.0043

EPSS Percentile 62.1%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Exploitation Intel

VulnCheck KEV 2021-08-17

Classification

CWE

CWE-79

Status published

Affected Products (3)

google/chrome < 52.0.2743.116

opensuse/leap

n/a/n/a

Timeline

Published Sep 11, 2016

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026