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CVE-2016-5204: google chrome Cross-site Scripting

CVSS: 6.1v3.0MediumModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2016-5204
Published 19-01-2017Last modified 06-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2016-5204 is a medium (CVSS 6.1) Cross-site Scripting vulnerability in google chrome. EPSS estimates a 1.17% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 66.8% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
25/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
6.1/10
010
Medium · v3.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
1.17%
0%100%
Low · +0.02 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 7 · Related 4
DSA-3731-1MGASA-2016-0419OPENSUSE-SU-2017:0563-1OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10171-1OPENSUSE-SU-2024:12948-1RHSA-2016:2919

Timeline

  1. 19-01-2017
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 06-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Leaking of an SVG shadow tree leading to corruption of the DOM tree in Blink in Google Chrome prior to 55.0.2883.75 for Mac, Windows and Linux, and 55.0.2883.84 for Android allowed a remote attacker to inject arbitrary scripts or HTML (UXSS) via a crafted HTML page.

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 2 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

1.17%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

67%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.02 pp

From 1.15% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
1.17%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Ubuntu2 products
  • chromium-browser< 58.0.3029.81-0ubuntu0.14.04.1172 | < 55.0.2883.87-0ubuntu0.16.04.1263
  • oxide-qt< 1.19.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 | < 1.19.4-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
Google1 product

2 vendors · 3 products

References

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