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CVE-2016-5197 (GCVE-0-2016-5197)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-01-19 05:43 – Updated: 2024-08-06 00:53
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • insufficient validation of untrusted input
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2016/10/chr… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94078 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://crbug.com/659477 x_refsource_CONFIRM
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
n/a Google Chrome prior to 54.0.2840.85 for Android Affected: Google Chrome prior to 54.0.2840.85 for Android
Date Public
2016-10-31 00:00
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