CVE-2016-1635: google chrome
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2016-1635 is a high (CVSS 10.0) vulnerability in google chrome. EPSS estimates a 2.34% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 83.6% of scored vulnerabilities.
Severe, CVSS 9.8 (NVD); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources; EPSS 2% (FIRST, 03-11-2026)
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 5 · Related 2Timeline
- 06-03-2016PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 05-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
extensions/renderer/render_frame_observer_natives.cc in Google Chrome before 49.0.2623.75 does not properly consider object lifetimes and re-entrancy issues during OnDocumentElementCreated handling, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (use-after-free) or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors.
CVSS metrics
3 scores · 2 sources · 2 versions- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated9.8CriticalCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS trend
Probability
2.34%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
84%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
No change 0.00 pp
From 2.34% on 04-10-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEVNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
ENISA CNWNot in the ENISA CNW catalog.
CIRCLNot in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeNo weakness data has been published for this record.
Affected systems
Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.
Google1 product
- chrome≤ 48.0.2564.116
Ubuntu1 product
- chromium-browser< 49.0.2623.87-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1112
2 vendors · 2 products
References
14 links- codereview.chromium.org/1684953002X Refsource CONFIRM
- code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=585268X Refsource CONFIRM
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- googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/03/stable-channel-update.htmlX Refsource CONFIRM