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
02 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
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
- 1.76% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 77.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 6.1 (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:C/C:L/I:L/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
- 2016-12-18 03:34Z9 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 00:53Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2016-05-31
- Assigning CNA
- Chrome
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')Base
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- c0abcaa3257a7feb3918a187f9c9d4b32240d7afba04db04783e25073ee75a54
05 Affected products
06 References
- codereview.chromium.orghttps://codereview.chromium.org/2411473002
- www.securityfocus.com93528http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93528
- crbug.comhttps://crbug.com/639126
- rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2016:2067http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2067.html
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201610-09https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201610-09
- chromereleases.googleblog.comhttps://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2016/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
07 Fixed in
Arch Linux
- chromium Fixed in 54.0.2840.59-1
Source: Arch Linux Security Tracker, the Arch Linux security team. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- chromium-browser Fixed in 58.0.3029.81-0ubuntu0.14.04.1172
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 55.0.2883.87-0ubuntu0.16.04.1263
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.