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medium 6.1

CVE-2016-5191 json

Bookmark handling in Google Chrome prior to 54.0.2840.59 for Windows, Mac, and Linux; 54.0.2840.85 for Android had insufficient validation…

published 2016-12-18 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-6142

cvss
6.1
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.8%
EPSS 1.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 78%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Bookmark handling in Google Chrome prior to 54.0.2840.59 for Windows, Mac, and Linux; 54.0.2840.85 for Android had insufficient validation of supplied data, which allowed a remote attacker to inject arbitrary scripts or HTML (UXSS) via crafted HTML pages, as demonstrated by an interpretation conflict between userinfo and scheme in an http://javascript:payload@example.com URL.

Patch / fix

  • chromium-browser Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 58.0.3029.81-0ubuntu0.14.04.1172
  • chromium-browser Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 55.0.2883.87-0ubuntu0.16.04.1263

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5191

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 54.0.2840.59-1.el6

red hat advisories RHSA-2016:2067

  • chromium Package Hub 12 54.0.2840.59-109.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2016:2597-1SUSE-SU-2016:2598-1

  • chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 55.0.2883.75-3.1
  • chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 113.0.5672.92-1.1
  • chromium Package Hub 12 54.0.2840.59-109.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10171-1openSUSE-SU-2024:12948-1openSUSE-SU-2016:2597-1

  • chromium Arch Linux 54.0.2840.59-1

arch linux advisories AVG-46

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-2016-5191 updated cvss 5.4

chromium-browser: universal xss in bookmarks

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 54.0.2840.59-1.el6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 54.0.2840.59-1.el6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 54.0.2840.59-1.el6
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:2067

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

1.76% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 78% 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

Affected products

  • n/a Chrome prior to 54.0.2840.59 for Windows, Mac, and Linux; 54.0.2840.85 for Android

Classification

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

Sources

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