high 8.8

CVE-2016-9651 in the critical feed json

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…

published 2019-01-09 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-10452

cvss: 8.8; version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 11.2%; EPSS 11.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 95%
public exploits: 1; Exploit-DB

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.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1 distros 4

Google Chrome 55.0.2883.75

ubuntu red hat opensuse arch linux

oxide-qt Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 1.19.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
oxide-qt Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 1.19.4-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
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-2016-9651

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 55.0.2883.75-1.el6

red hat advisories RHSA-2016:2919

chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 55.0.2883.75-3.1
chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 113.0.5672.92-1.1
chromium Package Hub 12 SP2 55.0.2883.75-2.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10171-1 openSUSE-SU-2024:12948-1 openSUSE-SU-2017:0563-1

chromium Arch Linux 55.0.2883.75-1

arch linux advisories AVG-93

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-2016-9651 updated 2026-06-28 cvss 8.8

chromium-browser: private property access in v8

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 55.0.2883.75-1.el6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 55.0.2883.75-1.el6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 55.0.2883.75-1.el6
fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:2919

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

2017-06-14 First public exploit (EDB-42175)
2019-01-09 Published

Exploit prediction

11.18% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

EDB-42175 Google Chrome - V8 Private Property Arbitrary Code Execution remote, 2017-06-14

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.0	8.8	CVSS:3.0/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

Google Chrome

Classification

Weakness

CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code

Technology feeds

Google Chrome rss critical rss

References

exploit-db.com /exploits/42175/
exploit
rhn.redhat.com /errata/RHSA-2016-2919.html
vendor-advisory
security.gentoo.org /glsa/201612-11
vendor-advisory
securityfocus.com /bid/94633
vdb-entry
crbug.com /664411
chromereleases.googleblog.com /2016/12/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html

Sources

CVE List CVE-2016-9651
NVD CVE-2016-9651

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.

Summary