CVE-2016-5191 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2016-5191

Bookmark handling in Google Chrome prior to 54.0.2840.59 for Windows,...

Vulnerability Description

Bookmark handling in Google Chrome prior to 54.0.2840.59 for Windows, Mac, and Linux; 54.0.2840.85 for Android had insufficient validation of supplied data, which allowed a remote attacker to inject arbitrary scripts or HTML (UXSS) via crafted HTML pages, as demonstrated by an interpretation conflict between userinfo and scheme in an http://javascript:payload@example.com URL.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Chrome prior to 54.0.2840.59 for Windows, Mac, and Linux; 54.0.2840.85 for Android
Vulnerable Versions:
Chrome prior to 54.0.2840.59 for Windows, Mac, and Linux; 54.0.2840.85 for Android

Timeline

Official Publish: December 18th, 2016
Last Modified: August 6th, 2024
Added to House: July 20th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.