CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-5218
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-01-19
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• google chrome (<= 54.0.2840.99)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2919.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94633 www.securityfocus.com
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2016/12/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html chromereleases.googleblog.com
- https://crbug.com/660498 crbug.com
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-11 security.gentoo.org
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2919.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94633 www.securityfocus.com
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2016/12/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html chromereleases.googleblog.com
- https://crbug.com/660498 crbug.com
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-11 security.gentoo.org