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CVE-2016-5198 kev in the critical feed json

V8 in Google Chrome prior to 54.0.2840.90 for Linux, and 54.0.2840.85 for Android, and 54.0.2840.87 for Windows and Mac included incorrect…

published 2017-01-19 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-6149

cvss
8.8
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Exploited
added 2022-06-08
epss
34.2%
EPSS 34.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 98%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

V8 in Google Chrome prior to 54.0.2840.90 for Linux, and 54.0.2840.85 for Android, and 54.0.2840.87 for Windows and Mac included incorrect optimisation assumptions, which allowed a remote attacker to perform arbitrary read/write operations, leading to code execution, via a crafted HTML page.

Patch / fix

cisa required action Apply updates per vendor instructions.

  • google chrome 54.0.2840.85, 54.0.2840.87, 54.0.2840.90
  • oxide-qt Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 1.18.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
  • oxide-qt Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 1.18.5-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
  • chromium-browser Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 58.0.3029.81-0ubuntu0.14.04.1172
  • chromium-browser Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 55.0.2883.87-0ubuntu0.16.04.1263

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5198

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 54.0.2840.90-1.el6

red hat advisories RHSA-2016:2672

  • chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 55.0.2883.75-3.1
  • chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 113.0.5672.92-1.1
  • chromium Package Hub 12 54.0.2840.90-112.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10171-1openSUSE-SU-2024:12948-1openSUSE-SU-2016:2732-1openSUSE-SU-2016:2733-1

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-2016-5198 updated cvss 8.8

chromium-browser: out of bounds memory access in v8

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 54.0.2840.90-1.el6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 54.0.2840.90-1.el6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 54.0.2840.90-1.el6
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:2672

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

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. Added to CISA KEV
  3. CISA patch deadline
  4. CISA SSVC: exploitation active

Known exploited

Added
4 y ago
Patch by
2022-06-22 (4 y ago)
Ransomware
Not known
Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.
Vendor, product
Google, Chromium V8
CISA name
Google Chromium V8 Out-of-Bounds Memory Vulnerability

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Active, exploited in the wild
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
21 mo ago

Exploit prediction

34.16% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • crbug.com https://crbug.com/659475 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CNA 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

  • n/a Google Chrome prior to 54.0.2840.90 for Linux, and 54.0.2840.85 for Android, and 54.0.2840.87 for Windows and Mac

Classification

Weakness
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.