CVE-2016-5191

MEDIUM

Google Chrome < 53.0.2785.143 - XSS

Title source: rule

Description

Bookmark handling in Google Chrome prior to 54.0.2840.59 for Windows, Mac, and Linux; 54.0.2840.85 for Android had insufficient validation of supplied data, which allowed a remote attacker to inject arbitrary scripts or HTML (UXSS) via crafted HTML pages, as demonstrated by an interpretation conflict between userinfo and scheme in an http://javascript:[email protected] URL.

References (6)

[Release Notes, Vendor Advisory] https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2016/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html

[Issue Tracking] https://crbug.com/639126

[Vendor Advisory] http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2067.html

[Patch] https://codereview.chromium.org/2411473002

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93528

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

Scores

CVSS v3 6.1

EPSS 0.0039

EPSS Percentile 59.8%

Attack Vector NETWORK

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

Classification

CWE

CWE-79

Status published

Affected Products (2)

google/chrome < 53.0.2785.143

n/a/Chrome prior to 54.0.2840.59 for Windows, Mac, and Linux; 54.0.2840.85 for Android < Chrome prior to 54.0.2840.59 for Windows, Mac, and Linux; 54.0.2840.85 for Android

Timeline

Published Dec 18, 2016

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026