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CVE-2016-1699
- 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-284
Description
WebKit/Source/devtools/front_end/devtools.js in the Developer Tools (aka DevTools) subsystem in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 51.0.2704.79, does not ensure that the remoteFrontendUrl parameter is associated with a chrome-devtools-frontend.appspot.com URL, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via a crafted URL.
Affected products
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 15.10, 16.04
- 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
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2992-1
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1201
- https://codereview.chromium.org/2010783002
- https://crbug.com/607939
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/06/stable-channel-update.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00003.html
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