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CVE-2016-5147

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Description

Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 53.0.2785.89 on Windows and OS X and before 53.0.2785.92 on Linux, mishandles deferred page loads, which allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted web site, aka "Universal XSS (UXSS)."

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201610-09

https://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/08/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_31.html

https://crbug.com/628942

https://codereview.chromium.org/2242923002

https://codereview.chromium.org/2190523002/

https://codereview.chromium.org/2183423002/

https://codereview.chromium.org/2174263002/

https://codereview.chromium.org/2169453002

https://codereview.chromium.org/2155393002

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036729

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92717

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3660

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1854.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-09/msg00073.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-09/msg00008.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-09/msg00004.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-09/msg00003.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2016-09-11

Updated: 2025-04-12

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00853

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