CVE-2016-5218 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The extensions API in Google Chrome prior to 55.0.2883.75 for Mac, Windows and Linux, and 55.0.2883.84 for Android incorrectly handled navigation within PDFs, which allowed a remote attacker to temporarily spoof the contents of the Omnibox (URL bar) via a crafted HTML page containing PDF data.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact High

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.

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

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/660498
https://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/12/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5218
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-11
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-5218

History

No history.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Chrome

Published: 2017-01-19T05:43:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T00:53:48.912Z

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

Link: CVE-2016-5218

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-01-19T05:59:00.870

Modified: 2024-11-21T02:53:51.740

Link: CVE-2016-5218

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

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

Links: CVE-2016-5218 - Bugzilla

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