CVE-2016-1627

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-02-14 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The Developer Tools (aka DevTools) subsystem in Google Chrome before 48.0.2564.109 does not validate URL schemes and ensure that the remoteBase parameter is associated with a chrome-devtools-frontend.appspot.com URL, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via a crafted URL, related to browser/devtools/devtools_ui_bindings.cc and WebKit/Source/devtools/front_end/Runtime.js.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 8.0
Google Chrome: through 48.0.2564.103
Opensuse: 13.1

References

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/02/stable-channel-update_9.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00104.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00119.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0241.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3486
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/83125
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035183
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=571121
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=585517
https://codereview.chromium.org/1586903002
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-09
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/02/stable-channel-update_9.html

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