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CVE-2016-1706 in the critical feed json

The PPAPI implementation in Google Chrome before 52.0.2743.82 does not validate the origin of IPC messages to the plugin broker process tha…

published 2016-07-23 10 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-2801

cvss
9.6
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.2%
EPSS 2.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 82%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The PPAPI implementation in Google Chrome before 52.0.2743.82 does not validate the origin of IPC messages to the plugin broker process that should have come from the browser process, which allows remote attackers to bypass a sandbox protection mechanism via an unexpected message type, related to broker_process_dispatcher.cc, ppapi_plugin_process_host.cc, ppapi_thread.cc, and render_frame_message_filter.cc.

Patch / fix

  • oxide-qt Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 1.16.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
  • oxide-qt Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 1.16.5-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
  • chromium-browser Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 52.0.2743.116-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1134
  • chromium-browser Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 52.0.2743.116-0ubuntu0.16.04.1.1250

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2016-1706

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • chromium-browser RHEL 6 EXTRAS 52.0.2743.82-1.el6

red hat advisories RHSA-2016:1485

  • chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 55.0.2883.75-3.1
  • chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 113.0.5672.92-1.1
  • chromium Package Hub 12 52.0.2743.82-89.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10171-1openSUSE-SU-2024:12948-1openSUSE-SU-2016:1868-1openSUSE-SU-2016:1869-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2016-1706 updated cvss 8.8

chromium-browser: sandbox escape in ppapi

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 52.0.2743.82-1.el6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 52.0.2743.82-1.el6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 52.0.2743.82-1.el6
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:1485

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.18% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 82% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 9.6 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 9.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation
Technology feeds

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.