High severity8.1NVD Advisory· Published May 14, 2016· Updated May 6, 2026

CVE-2016-1671

Description

Google Chrome before 50.0.2661.102 on Android mishandles / (slash) and \ (backslash) characters, which allows attackers to conduct directory traversal attacks via a file: URL, related to net/base/escape.cc and net/base/filename_util.cc.

Affected products

Google/Chrome
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range: <=50.0.2661.87

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.

References

googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/05/stable-channel-update.htmlnvd
www.securityfocus.com/bid/90584nvd
www.securitytracker.com/id/1035872nvd
codereview.chromium.org/1704163003/nvd
crbug.com/586657nvd
groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/message/rawnvd
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-02nvd

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