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CVE-2016-1687

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-06-05 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

The renderer implementation in Google Chrome before 51.0.2704.63 does not properly restrict public exposure of classes, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via vectors related to extensions.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0
• Google Chrome: through 50.0.2661.102
• openSUSE Leap: 42.1
• Opensuse: 13.2
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 6.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 6.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 6.0
• SUSE Linux Enterprise: 12.0

References

• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/05/stable-channel-update_25.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00062.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00063.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00005.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3590
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/90876
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035981
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1190
• https://codereview.chromium.org/1938123002
• https://codereview.chromium.org/1939833003
• https://crbug.com/603748
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-07

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