VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-1668

high
Published 2016-05-14 · Modified 2026-05-06
💬 Discuss on Community ✚ Propose mitigation
CVSS v3
8.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
—
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
8.8

Description

The forEachForBinding function in WebKit/Source/bindings/core/v8/Iterable.h in the V8 bindings in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 50.0.2661.102, uses an improper creation context, which allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy via a crafted web site.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
92%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

OS impact
debian Debian Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
8.0 Affected —
suse SUSE Affected 2 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
13.1 Affected —
— Affected —

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
gcp googlechrome{"endIncluding":"50.0.2661.87"}

References

CWEs

CWE-284

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.