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CVE-2016-1642

30
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-1642 describes multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Google Chrome versions prior to 49.0.2623.75. These vulnerabilities could allow attackers to cause a denial of service or potentially have other significant impacts through unknown attack vectors. With a CVSS v3 score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with no user interaction, leading to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While no public exploit code or active exploitation is reported, it garnered some community discussion and media coverage at the time of its disclosure.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 48.0.2564.116CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

9.8CRITICAL

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.58%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
73.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0158 is in the 60th percentile among its peer group of 36,862 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 SupplementaryFixed in: chromium-browser-0:49.0.2623.75-1.el6
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2016-1642Important

chromium-browser: various fixes from internal audits

Mar 2, 2016

References

googlechromereleases.blogspot.com / 2016/03/stable-channel-update.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00014.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00015.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00018.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00028.html
bugs.chromium.org / p/chromium/issues/detail
bugs.chromium.org / p/chromium/issues/detail
bugs.chromium.org / p/chromium/issues/detail
bugs.chromium.org / p/chromium/issues/detail
bugs.chromium.org / p/chromium/issues/detail
bugs.chromium.org / p/chromium/issues/detail
bugs.chromium.org / p/chromium/issues/detail
bugs.chromium.org / p/chromium/issues/detail
bugs.chromium.org / p/chromium/issues/detail
code.google.com / p/chromium/issues/detail
debian.org / security/2016/dsa-3507
securityfocus.com / bid/84008
securitytracker.com / id/1035185
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2920-1