CVE-2016-1632

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: 2016-03-06 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The Extensions subsystem in Google Chrome before 49.0.2623.75 does not properly maintain own properties, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via crafted JavaScript code that triggers an incorrect cast, related to extensions/renderer/v8_helpers.h and gin/converter.h.

Affected products

Google Chrome: through 48.0.2564.116

References

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/03/stable-channel-update.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00014.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00015.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00018.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00028.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3507
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84008
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035185
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=549986
https://codereview.chromium.org/1433293004
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-09
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/03/stable-channel-update.html

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