CVE-2016-5191

Publication date 18 December 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.1 · Medium

Score breakdown

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:payload@example.com URL.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
chromium-browser 17.04 zesty
Fixed 55.0.2883.87-0ubuntu1
16.10 yakkety
Fixed 55.0.2883.87-0ubuntu0.16.10.1328
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 55.0.2883.87-0ubuntu0.16.04.1263
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 58.0.3029.81-0ubuntu0.14.04.1172
12.04 LTS precise Ignored
oxide-qt 17.04 zesty
Not affected
16.10 yakkety
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
12.04 LTS precise Not in release

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 6.1 · Medium

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

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