CVE-2016-1657

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 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-254

Description

The WebContentsImpl::FocusLocationBarByDefault function in content/browser/web_contents/web_contents_impl.cc in Google Chrome before 50.0.2661.75 mishandles focus for certain about:blank pages, which allows remote attackers to spoof the address bar via a crafted URL.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 8.0
Google Chrome: through 49.0.2623.112
Novell Suse Package Hub For Suse Linux Enterprise: 12
openSUSE Leap: 42.1

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
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3549
https://codereview.chromium.org/1678233003/
https://crbug.com/567445
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

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