vulnerability

Google Chrome Vulnerability: CVE-2017-5016 UI spoofing in Blink

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Feb 17, 2017
Added
Feb 22, 2017
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

Blink in Google Chrome prior to 56.0.2924.76 for Linux, Windows and Mac, and 56.0.2924.87 for Android, failed to prevent certain UI elements from being displayed by non-visible pages, which allowed a remote attacker to show certain UI elements on a page they don't control via a crafted HTML page.

Solution

google-chrome-upgrade-latest
Title
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