CVE-2016-1671
Google Chrome before 50.0.2661.102 on Android mishandles / (slash) and \ (backslash) characters, which allows attackers to conduct directory traversal attacks via a file: URL, related to
02 Description
Google Chrome before 50.0.2661.102 on Android mishandles / (slash) and \ (backslash) characters, which allows attackers to conduct directory traversal attacks via a file: URL, related to
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 1.52% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 74.2% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 8.1 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2016-05-14 21:00Z10 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-05 23:02Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2016-01-12
- Assigning CNA
- Chrome
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')Base
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 4577bcd700a0bcf8d27793bc8551625875649e8a1417c838c65a0181fd24bfbc
05 Affected products
06 References
- groups.google.com[chromium-reviews] 20160217 FileURLToFilePath: Don't unescape '/' and '\\'. (issue 1704163003 by mmenke@chromium.org)https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/message/raw?msg=chromium-reviews/UkMGbbnTDW8/A4g-6YkfBAAJ
- www.securityfocus.com90584http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/90584
- www.securitytracker.com1035872http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035872
- crbug.comhttps://crbug.com/586657
- googlechromereleases.blogspot.comhttp://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/05/stable-channel-update.html
- codereview.chromium.orghttps://codereview.chromium.org/1704163003/
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201605-02https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-02
07 Fixed in
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- chromium-browser Fixed in 50.0.2661.102-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1117
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- chromium-browser Fixed in 50.0.2661.102-0ubuntu0.16.04.1.1237
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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