{"id":"CVE-2016-5197","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2016-5197","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T19:49:01.493Z","title":"The content view client in Google Chrome prior to 54.0.2840.85 for Android insufficiently validated intent URLs, which allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to start arbitrary activity on the system via a crafted HTML page.","description":"The content view client in Google Chrome prior to 54.0.2840.85 for Android insufficiently validated intent URLs, which allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to start arbitrary activity on the system via a crafted HTML page.","published":"2017-01-19T05:59:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T00:48:58.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"chrome-cve-admin@google.com","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":8.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-20"],"affected":["google/chrome"],"epss":{"score":0.00963,"percentile":0.61408,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.96%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94078","source":"chrome-cve-admin@google.com"},{"url":"https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2016/10/chrome-for-android-update_31.html","source":"chrome-cve-admin@google.com"},{"url":"https://crbug.com/659477","source":"chrome-cve-admin@google.com"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94078","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2016/10/chrome-for-android-update_31.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://crbug.com/659477","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5197","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}