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CVE-2016-1671

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.1 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-05-14 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Google Chrome before 50.0.2661.102 on Android mishandles / (slash) and \ (backslash) characters, which allows attackers to conduct directory traversal attacks via a file: URL, related to net/base/escape.cc and net/base/filename_util.cc.

Affected products

• Google Chrome: through 50.0.2661.87

References

• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/05/stable-channel-update.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/90584
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035872
• https://codereview.chromium.org/1704163003/
• https://crbug.com/586657
• https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/message/raw?msg=chromium-reviews/UkMGbbnTDW8/A4g-6YkfBAAJ
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-02
• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/05/stable-channel-update.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/90584
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035872
• https://codereview.chromium.org/1704163003/
• https://crbug.com/586657

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