CVE-2016-1639 is a critical use-after-free vulnerability in the WebRTC Audio Private API within Google Chrome versions prior to 49.0.2623.75. This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service or potentially achieve other unspecified impacts by exploiting incorrect reliance on a resource context pointer. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), it presents a high-impact threat with no user interaction required and low attack complexity, potentially leading to full confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise. While the vulnerability has a high FAUCET Risk Score of 85/100 and garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, nor are public exploit modules available in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 48.0.2564.116CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.