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CVE-2016-1698

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.1% 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 createCustomType function in extensions/renderer/resources/binding.js in the extension bindings in Google Chrome before 51.0.2704.79 does not validate module types, which might allow attackers to load arbitrary modules or obtain sensitive information by leveraging a poisoned definition.

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/1912783002
• https://crbug.com/603725
• 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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