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CVE-2016-5141

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 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: 2016-08-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 52.0.2743.116, allows remote attackers to spoof the address bar via vectors involving a provisional URL for an initially empty document, related to FrameLoader.cpp and ScopedPageLoadDeferrer.cpp.

Affected products

• Google Chrome: through 52.0.2743.82

References

• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/08/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00005.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00006.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1580.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3645
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92276
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036547
• https://codereview.chromium.org/2171063002
• https://crbug.com/629542
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4KMX62M7UNRLWO4FEQ6YIMPMTKXXJV6A/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201610-09
• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/08/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html

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