SOC status:Duty analyst on shift

UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2016-8508

Yandex Browser for desktop before 17.1.1.227 does not show Protect (similar to Safebrowsing in Chromium) warnings in web-sites with special content-type, which could be used by remote attacker for prevention Protect warning on own malicious web-site.

MEDIUM 6.5EPSS 1.60%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.60%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

Yandex Browser for desktop before 17.1.1.227 does not show Protect (similar to Safebrowsing in Chromium) warnings in web-sites with special content-type, which could be used by remote attacker for prevention Protect warning on own malicious web-site.

CVSS 3.1
6.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
EPSS
1.60% probability · 74th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-254
Affected
yandex/yandex browser
Source
browser-security@yandex-team.ru

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.