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Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Affecting chromium-browser package, versions <0:54.0.2840.59-1.el6

Severity

 Recommended
high

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.32% (71st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL6-CHROMIUMBROWSER-1507488
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed12 Oct 2016
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Introduced: 12 Oct 2016

CVE-2016-5191  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-79  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:6 chromium-browser to version 0:54.0.2840.59-1.el6 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2016:2067.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream chromium-browser package and not the chromium-browser package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:6 relevant fixed versions and status.

Bookmark handling in Google Chrome prior to 54.0.2840.59 for Windows, Mac, and Linux; 54.0.2840.85 for Android had insufficient validation of supplied data, which allowed a remote attacker to inject arbitrary scripts or HTML (UXSS) via crafted HTML pages, as demonstrated by an interpretation conflict between userinfo and scheme in an http://javascript:payload@example.com URL.