CVE-2016-5191
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…
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.76%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
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:payload@example.com URL.
- CVSS 3.0
- 6.1 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- EPSS
- 1.76% probability · 77th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Affected
- google/chrome
- Source
- chrome-cve-admin@google.com
References
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2067.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93528
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2016/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
- https://codereview.chromium.org/2411473002
- https://crbug.com/639126
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201610-09
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2067.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93528
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2016/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
- https://codereview.chromium.org/2411473002
- https://crbug.com/639126
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201610-09
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.