CVE-2016-5145

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.3% 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-254

Description

Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 52.0.2743.116, does not ensure that a taint property is preserved after a structure-clone operation on an ImageBitmap object derived from a cross-origin image, which allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy via crafted JavaScript code.

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.securityfocus.com/bid/92276
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036547
https://codereview.chromium.org/2096313002
https://codereview.chromium.org/2097393002
https://codereview.chromium.org/2178513002
https://crbug.com/623406
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4KMX62M7UNRLWO4FEQ6YIMPMTKXXJV6A/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201610-09

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