vulnerability

Google Chrome Vulnerability: CVE-2016-5201 Info leak in extensions

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Jan 19, 2017
Added
Jan 24, 2017
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

A leak of privateClass in the extensions API in Google Chrome prior to 54.0.2840.100 for Linux, and 54.0.2840.99 for Windows, and 54.0.2840.98 for Mac allowed a remote attacker to access privileged JavaScript code via a crafted HTML page.

Solution

google-chrome-upgrade-latest
Title
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