VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-5178

critical
Published 2017-05-23 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
—
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
9.8

Description

arbitrary code execution in chromium

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
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 —
fedora Fedora Affected 2 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
25 Affected —
24 Affected —
suse SUSE Affected 2 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
42.1 Affected —
13.2 Affected —
arch Arch Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Fixed 53.0.2785.143-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
gcp googlechrome{"endIncluding":"53.0.2785.129"}

References

CWEs

CWE-20

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

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