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CVE-2016-5172

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-09-25 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

The parser in Google V8, as used in Google Chrome before 53.0.2785.113, mishandles scopes, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from arbitrary memory locations via crafted JavaScript code.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
• Google Chrome: through 53.0.2785.101
• Node.js: from 6.0.0 through 6.8.1

References

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1905.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3667
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92942
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036826
• https://codereview.chromium.org/2077283004
• https://crbug.com/616386
• https://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/09/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_13.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201610-09
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1905.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3667
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92942
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036826

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