CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-5163

4.3 MEDIUM Published 2016-09-11 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-09-11
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-254

Description

The bidirectional-text implementation in Google Chrome before 53.0.2785.89 on Windows and OS X and before 53.0.2785.92 on Linux does not ensure left-to-right (LTR) rendering of URLs, which allows remote attackers to spoof the address bar via crafted right-to-left (RTL) Unicode text, related to omnibox/SuggestionView.java and omnibox/UrlBar.java in Chrome for Android.

Affected configurations

• google chrome (<= 52.0.2743.116) • opensuse leap 42.1

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References