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CVE-2016-8502
Yandex Protect Anti-phishing warning in Yandex Browser for desktop from version 15.12.0 to 16.2 could be used by remote attacker for…
High7.3EPSS 1.0%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- yandex
Description
Yandex Protect Anti-phishing warning in Yandex Browser for desktop from version 15.12.0 to 16.2 could be used by remote attacker for brute-forcing passwords from important web-resource with special JavaScript.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.3 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.0% · top 37% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.3.
Weakness
- Password brute-force through Yandex Protect Anti-phishing message
- CWE-254 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-254 and its CVEs
Affected products
Yandex N.V. · Yandex Browser for desktop
- affected 15.12.0 to 16.2 for Windows and OSx.
References (2)
- 93923 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://browser.yandex.com/security/changelogs/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_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)
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[](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2016-8502)Record last updated .