CVE-2016-5201

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 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: 2017-01-19 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

A leak of privateClass in the extensions API in Google Chrome prior to 54.0.2840.100 for Linux, and 54.0.2840.99 for Windows, and 54.0.2840.98 for Mac allowed a remote attacker to access privileged JavaScript code via a crafted HTML page.

Affected products

Google Chrome: through 54.0.2840.87

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2718.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94196
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037273
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2016/11/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_9.html
https://crbug.com/660678
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-16
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2718.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94196
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037273
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2016/11/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_9.html
https://crbug.com/660678
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-16

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