CVE-2016-5193

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% 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-20

Description

Google Chrome prior to 54.0 for iOS had insufficient validation of URLs for windows open by DOM, which allowed a remote attacker to bypass restrictions on navigation to certain URL schemes 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://crbug.com/639658
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://crbug.com/639658
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201610-09

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