chromium-browser: universal xss in bookmarks
Published Dec 18, 2016
6.1
MEDIUMCVSS 3.0
EPSS 1.76%
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.
Affected products
No data.
No data.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary
chromium-browser-0:54.0.2840.59-1.el6
Fixed · RHSA-2016:2067
| Product | Package | State | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary | chromium-browser-0:54.0.2840.59-1.el6 | Fixed | RHSA-2016:2067 |
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
No remediation recorded yet.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.1 score for this CVE.
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
1 other source (Red Hat) ▾
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.
Score over time
2022–2026- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Percentile over time
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Table of values (11 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2026 | 1.76% (0.01765) | 77.24th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 1.74% (0.01740) | 74.71th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 0.39% (0.00390) | 58.03th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 12, 2024 | 0.32% (0.00317) | 71.28th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Feb 8, 2024 | 0.32% (0.00317) | 69.61th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Nov 8, 2023 | 0.32% (0.00317) | 67.08th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 0.29% (0.00287) | 63.89th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 1.32% (0.01319) | 71.27th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 23, 2023 | 1.32% (0.01319) | 71.23th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Apr 1, 2022 | 1.32% (0.01319) | 69.22th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 1.32% (0.01319) | 44.98th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
References (11)
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2067.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93528 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5191 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1384361 Issue Tracking
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2016/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://codereview.chromium.org/2411473002 x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://crbug.com/639126 x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5191
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201610-09 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-5191
| Link | Providers | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2067.html | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT | |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93528 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID | |
| https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5191 | Vendor Advisory | |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1384361 | Issue Tracking | |
| https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2016/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html | x_refsource_CONFIRM | |
| https://codereview.chromium.org/2411473002 | x_refsource_CONFIRM | |
| https://crbug.com/639126 | x_refsource_CONFIRM | |
| https://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html | ||
| https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5191 | ||
| https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201610-09 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO | |
| https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-5191 |
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