CVE-2016-5205 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Blink in Google Chrome prior to 55.0.2883.75 for Linux, Windows and Mac, incorrectly handles deferred page loads, which allowed a remote attacker to inject arbitrary scripts or HTML (UXSS) via a crafted HTML page.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00247.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Google	Chrome
Redhat	Rhel Extras

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Package	CPE	Advisory	Released Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary
chromium-browser-0:55.0.2883.75-1.el6	cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_extras:6	RHSA-2016:2919	2016-12-07T00:00:00Z

No data.

References

Link	Providers
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2919.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94633
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2016/12/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
https://crbug.com/646610
https://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/12/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5205
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-11
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-5205

History

No history.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Chrome

Published: 2017-01-19T05:43:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-06T00:53:48.526Z

Reserved: 2016-05-31T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2016-5205

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-01-19T05:59:00.417

Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

Link: CVE-2016-5205

Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2016-12-01T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-5205 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

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