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CVE-2016-5207

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.2% 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

In Blink in Google Chrome prior to 55.0.2883.75 for Mac, Windows and Linux, and 55.0.2883.84 for Android, corruption of the DOM tree could occur during the removal of a full screen element, which allowed a remote attacker to achieve arbitrary code execution 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/655904
• 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/655904
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-11

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