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medium 6.1

CVE-2016-5164 json

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in WebKit/Source/platform/v8_inspector/V8Debugger.cpp in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 53…

published 2016-09-11 10 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-6115

cvss
6.1
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.0%
EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 64%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in WebKit/Source/platform/v8_inspector/V8Debugger.cpp in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 53.0.2785.89 on Windows and OS X and before 53.0.2785.92 on Linux, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML into the Developer Tools (aka DevTools) subsystem via a crafted web site, aka "Universal XSS (UXSS)."

Patch / fix

  • oxide-qt Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 1.17.7-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
  • oxide-qt Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 1.17.7-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
  • chromium-browser Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 53.0.2785.143-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1142
  • chromium-browser Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 53.0.2785.143-0ubuntu0.16.04.1.1254

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5164

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • chromium-browser RHEL 6 EXTRAS 53.0.2785.89-3.el6

red hat advisories RHSA-2016:1854

  • chromium Package Hub 12 53.0.2785.89-96.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2016:2250-1SUSE-SU-2016:2251-1

  • chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 55.0.2883.75-3.1
  • chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 113.0.5672.92-1.1
  • chromium Package Hub 12 53.0.2785.89-96.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10171-1openSUSE-SU-2024:12948-1openSUSE-SU-2016:2250-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2016-5164 updated cvss 6.5

chromium-browser: universal xss using devtools

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 53.0.2785.89-3.el6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 53.0.2785.89-3.el6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 53.0.2785.89-3.el6
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:1854

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.04% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 64% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 6.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation
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References

Sources

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