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CVE-2016-1696

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 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: 2016-06-05 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-254

Description

The extensions subsystem in Google Chrome before 51.0.2704.79 does not properly restrict bindings access, which allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0
• Google Chrome: through 51.0.2704.63
• 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/2016/06/stable-channel-update.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00003.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00004.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00005.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3594
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036026
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1201
• https://codereview.chromium.org/1866103002
• https://crbug.com/601073
• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/06/stable-channel-update.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00003.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00004.html

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