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CVE-2016-5204

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 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-79

Description

Leaking of an SVG shadow tree leading to corruption of the DOM tree in Blink in Google Chrome prior to 55.0.2883.75 for Mac, Windows and Linux, and 55.0.2883.84 for Android allowed a remote attacker to inject arbitrary scripts or HTML (UXSS) via a crafted HTML page.

Affected products

• Google Chrome: through 54.0.2840.99

References

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2919.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94633
• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2016/12/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
• https://crbug.com/630870
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-11
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2919.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94633
• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2016/12/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
• https://crbug.com/630870
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-11

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