Cross-site Scripting (XSS) The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package oxide-qt  (opens in a new tab)


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1.25% (69th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1504-OXIDEQT-396592
  • published11 Sept 2016
  • disclosed11 Sept 2016

Introduced: 11 Sep 2016

CVE-2016-5165  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-79  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:15.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream oxide-qt package and not the oxide-qt package as distributed by Ubuntu.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Developer Tools (aka DevTools) subsystem in Google Chrome before 53.0.2785.89 on Windows and OS X and before 53.0.2785.92 on Linux allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the settings parameter in a chrome-devtools-frontend.appspot.com URL's query string.