Medium severity6.1NVD Advisory· Published Jan 19, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026

CVE-2016-5208

Description

Blink in Google Chrome prior to 55.0.2883.75 for Linux and Windows, and 55.0.2883.84 for Android allowed possible corruption of the DOM tree during synchronous event handling, which allowed a remote attacker to inject arbitrary scripts or HTML (UXSS) via a crafted HTML page.

Affected products

osv-coords2 versions
pkg:rpm/opensuse/chromium&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweed pkg:rpm/suse/chromium&distro=SUSE%20Package%20Hub%2012%20SP2
< 55.0.2883.75-3.1+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: < 55.0.2883.75-3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 55.0.2883.75-2.1

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.

References

rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2919.htmlnvd
www.securityfocus.com/bid/94633nvd
chromereleases.googleblog.com/2016/12/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.htmlnvd
crbug.com/658535nvd
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-11nvd

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