CVE-2016-5208 (GCVE-0-2016-5208)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-01-19 05:43 – Updated: 2024-08-06 00:53
VLAI
Summary
Blink in Google Chrome prior to 55.0.2883.75 for Linux and Windows, and 55.0.2883.84 for Android allowed possible corruption of the DOM tree during synchronous event handling, which allowed a remote attacker to inject arbitrary scripts or HTML (UXSS) via a crafted HTML page.
Severity
6.1 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • object corruption
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2919.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94633 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2016/12/sta… x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://crbug.com/658535 x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-11 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a Google Chrome prior to 55.0.2883.75 for Linux and Windows, and 55.0.2883.84 for Android Affected: Google Chrome prior to 55.0.2883.75 for Linux and Windows, and 55.0.2883.84 for Android
Date Public
2016-12-01 00:00
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