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CVE-2016-9651

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 11.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-01-09 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-94

Description

A missing check for whether a property of a JS object is private in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 55.0.2883.75 allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code inside a sandbox via a crafted HTML page.

Affected products

• Google Chrome: before 55.0.2883.75 — fixed in 55.0.2883.75
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 6.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 6.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 6.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Google Chrome 55.0.2883.75. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

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/664411
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-11
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42175/
• 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/664411
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-11
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42175/

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