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CVE-2016-5198

high · 8.8Actively exploited

On the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Added 2022-06-08Remediation due 2022-06-22

V8 in Google Chrome prior to 54.0.2840.90 for Linux, and 54.0.2840.85 for Android, and 54.0.2840.87 for Windows and Mac included incorrect optimisation assumptions, which allowed a remote attacker to perform arbitrary read/write operations, leading to code execution, via a crafted HTML page.

8.8
CVSS
34.2%
EPSS (exploit prob.)
98th
EPSS percentile
2017-01-19
Published

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses

CWE-787

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
googlechrome< 54.0.2840.90
linuxlinux_kernelall versions
googlechrome< 54.0.2840.85
googleandroidall versions
googlechrome< 54.0.2840.87
applemacosall versions
microsoftwindowsall versions
redhatenterprise_linux_desktop6.0
redhatenterprise_linux_server6.0
redhatenterprise_linux_workstation6.0

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References

Query this programmatically:

curl https://evil-db.io/api/v1/cve/CVE-2016-5198