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CVE-2016-5181

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-12-18 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Blink in Google Chrome prior to 54.0.2840.59 for Windows, Mac, and Linux; 54.0.2840.85 for Android permitted execution of v8 microtasks while the DOM was in an inconsistent state, which allowed a remote attacker to inject arbitrary scripts or HTML (UXSS) via crafted HTML pages.

Affected products

• Google Chrome: through 53.0.2785.143

References

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2067.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93528
• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2016/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
• https://codereview.chromium.org/2330843002
• https://crbug.com/645211
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201610-09
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2067.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93528
• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2016/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
• https://codereview.chromium.org/2330843002
• https://crbug.com/645211
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201610-09

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