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CVE-2016-1658

• 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-200

Description

The Extensions subsystem in Google Chrome before 50.0.2661.75 incorrectly relies on GetOrigin method calls for origin comparisons, which allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and obtain sensitive information via a crafted extension.

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/1658913002
• https://crbug.com/573317
• 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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