VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-5162

medium
Published 2016-09-11 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.5

Description

The AllowCrossRendererResourceLoad function in extensions/browser/url_request_util.cc in Google Chrome before 53.0.2785.89 on Windows and OS X and before 53.0.2785.92 on Linux does not properly use an extension's manifest.json web_accessible_resources field for restrictions on IFRAME elements, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct clickjacking attacks, and trick users into changing extension settings, via a crafted web site, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-5160.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
42.1 Affected —

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
gcp googlechrome{"endIncluding":"52.0.2743.116"}

References

CWEs

CWE-254

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

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