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critical 9.1

CVE-2016-5202 in the critical feed json

browser/extensions/api/dial/dial_registry.cc in Google Chrome before 54.0.2840.98 on macOS, before 54.0.2840.99 on Windows, and before 54.0…

published 2019-10-25 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-6153

cvss
9.1
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.8%
EPSS 0.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 56%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

browser/extensions/api/dial/dial_registry.cc in Google Chrome before 54.0.2840.98 on macOS, before 54.0.2840.99 on Windows, and before 54.0.2840.100 on Linux neglects to copy a device ID before an erase() call, which causes the erase operation to access data that that erase operation will destroy.

Patch / fix

  • google chrome 54.0.2840.98, 54.0.2840.99, 54.0.2840.100
  • 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-2016-5202

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 54.0.2840.100-1.el6

red hat advisories RHSA-2016:2718

  • chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 55.0.2883.75-3.1
  • chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 113.0.5672.92-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10171-1openSUSE-SU-2024:12948-1

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-2016-5202 updated cvss 8.8

chromium-browser: various fixes from internal audits

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 54.0.2840.100-1.el6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 54.0.2840.100-1.el6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 54.0.2840.100-1.el6
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:2718

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

0.79% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 56% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 9.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

  • chromium-browser chromium-browser

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource
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.