CVE-2016-5149 Code injection in n/a

What is CVE-2016-5149?

CVE-2016-5149 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in Google Chrome, published on 11 Sep 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

The extensions subsystem in Google Chrome before 53.0.2785.89 on Windows and OS X and before 53.0.2785.92 on Linux relies on an IFRAME source URL to identify an associated extension, which allows remote attackers to conduct extension-bindings injection attacks by leveraging script access to a resource that initially has the about:blank URL.

Weakness: CWE-94

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-5149?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Google Chrome, Opensuse Leap.

How do I fix CVE-2016-5149?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2016-5149 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-5149 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-4crp-674x-454f, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5149.