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medium 6.5

CVE-2016-5172 json

The parser in Google V8, as used in Google Chrome before 53.0.2785.113, mishandles scopes, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitiv…

published 2016-09-25 10 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-6123

cvss
6.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.9%
EPSS 1.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 79%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The parser in Google V8, as used in Google Chrome before 53.0.2785.113, mishandles scopes, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from arbitrary memory locations via crafted JavaScript code.

Patch / fix

  • oxide-qt Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 1.17.9-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
  • oxide-qt Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 1.17.9-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
  • chromium-browser Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 53.0.2785.143-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1142
  • chromium-browser Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 53.0.2785.143-0ubuntu0.16.04.1.1254

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5172

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 53.0.2785.113-1.el6

red hat advisories RHSA-2016:1905

  • firefox-atk SLES 11 SP4-LTSS 2.26.1-2.8.4
  • mozilla-nss SLES 11 SP4-LTSS 3.45-38.9.3
  • firefox-gtk3 SLES 11 SP4-LTSS 3.10.9-2.15.3
  • mozilla-nspr SLES 11 SP4-LTSS 4.21-29.6.1
  • firefox-cairo SLES 11 SP4-LTSS 1.15.10-2.13.4
  • firefox-glib2 SLES 11 SP4-LTSS 2.54.3-2.14.7
  • firefox-pango SLES 11 SP4-LTSS 1.40.14-2.7.4
  • firefox-libffi SLES 11 SP4-LTSS 3.2.1.git259-2.3.3

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2019:14246-1

  • chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 55.0.2883.75-3.1
  • chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 113.0.5672.92-1.1
  • chromium Package Hub 12 53.0.2785.113-100.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10171-1openSUSE-SU-2024:12948-1openSUSE-SU-2016:2309-1openSUSE-SU-2016:2311-1

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-2016-5172 updated cvss 6.5

chromium-browser: arbitrary memory read in v8

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 53.0.2785.113-1.el6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 53.0.2785.113-1.el6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 53.0.2785.113-1.el6
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:1905

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

1.86% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 79% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
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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.