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FKIE_CVE-2016-5201

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2017-01-19 05:59 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:48
Severity
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Summary
A leak of privateClass in the extensions API in Google Chrome prior to 54.0.2840.100 for Linux, and 54.0.2840.99 for Windows, and 54.0.2840.98 for Mac allowed a remote attacker to access privileged JavaScript code via a crafted HTML page.
References
chrome-cve-admin@google.comhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2718.html
chrome-cve-admin@google.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94196
chrome-cve-admin@google.comhttp://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037273
chrome-cve-admin@google.comhttps://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2016/11/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_9.html
chrome-cve-admin@google.comhttps://crbug.com/660678
chrome-cve-admin@google.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-16
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2718.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94196
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037273
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2016/11/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_9.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://crbug.com/660678
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-16
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
google chrome *
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          "vendor": "n/a",
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