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CVE-2016-5197

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-01-19 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The content view client in Google Chrome prior to 54.0.2840.85 for Android insufficiently validated intent URLs, which allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to start arbitrary activity on the system via a crafted HTML page.

Affected products

• Google Chrome: through 54.0.2840.68

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94078
• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2016/10/chrome-for-android-update_31.html
• https://crbug.com/659477
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94078
• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2016/10/chrome-for-android-update_31.html
• https://crbug.com/659477

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