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Google Chrome Vulnerability: CVE-2016-5163 Address bar spoofing

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

Published

Sep 11, 2016

Added

Sep 15, 2016

Modified

Mar 30, 2026

Description

The bidirectional-text implementation in Google Chrome before 53.0.2785.89 on Windows and OS X and before 53.0.2785.92 on Linux does not ensure left-to-right (LTR) rendering of URLs, which allows remote attackers to spoof the address bar via crafted right-to-left (RTL) Unicode text, related to omnibox/SuggestionView.java and omnibox/UrlBar.java in Chrome for Android.

Solution

google-chrome-upgrade-latest

References

CVE-2016-5163
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2016-5163
EUVD-EUVD-2016-6114
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2016-6114

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