CVE-2016-5191

Description

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:[email protected] URL.

References

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

https://crbug.com/639126

https://codereview.chromium.org/2411473002

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2016/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93528

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2067.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3