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CVE-2016-5196
The content renderer client in Google Chrome prior to 54.0.2840.85 for Android insufficiently enforced the Same Origin Policy amongst…
High8.8EPSS 0.98%
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- Updated
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- Chrome
Description
The content renderer client in Google Chrome prior to 54.0.2840.85 for Android insufficiently enforced the Same Origin Policy amongst downloaded files, which allowed a remote attacker to access any downloaded file and interact with sites, including those the user was logged into, via a crafted HTML page.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.98% · top 38% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Weakness
- insufficient policy enforcement
- CWE-254 (opens in a new tab)
Affected products
Google Chrome prior to 54.0.2840.85 for Android
- affected Google Chrome prior to 54.0.2840.85 for Android
References (3)
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2016/10/chrome-for-android-update_31.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://crbug.com/659492 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 94078 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Record last updated .