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CVE-2016-1656

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-04-18 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-284

Description

The download implementation in Google Chrome before 50.0.2661.75 on Android allows remote attackers to bypass intended pathname restrictions via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• Google Chrome: through 49.0.2623.112
• openSUSE Leap: 42.1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise: 12.0

References

• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/04/stable-channel-update_13.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00040.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00041.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00049.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00050.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0638.html
• https://crbug.com/570750
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-02
• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/04/stable-channel-update_13.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00040.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00041.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00049.html

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