High severity · published Jan 9, 2019
CVE-2016-9651
A missing check for whether a property of a JS object is private in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 55.0.2883.75 allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code inside a sandbox…
8.8
CVSS
11.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A missing check for whether a property of a JS object is private in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 55.0.2883.75 allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code inside a sandbox via a crafted HTML page.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)11.2% · higher than 96% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
CH
Chrome · Google
before 55.0.2883.75 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux Desktop · Redhat
6.0 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux Server · Redhat
6.0 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux Workstation · Redhat
6.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9651
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-9651
rhn.redhat.com
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2919.html
www.securityfocus.com
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94633
chromereleases.googleblog.com
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2016/12/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
crbug.com
https://crbug.com/664411
security.gentoo.org
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-11
www.exploit-db.com
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42175/
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