CVE-2016-1629

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-02-21 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Google Chrome before 48.0.2564.116 allows remote attackers to bypass the Blink Same Origin Policy and a sandbox protection mechanism via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 8.0
Google Chrome: through 48.0.2564.109
Novell Suse Package Hub For Suse Linux Enterprise: 12
openSUSE Leap: 42.1
Opensuse: 13.1, 13.2

References

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/02/stable-channel-update_18.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00045.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00047.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00048.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0286.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3486
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/83302
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035184
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2905-1
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=583431
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-09
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/02/stable-channel-update_18.html

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