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CVE-2016-1654

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-1654 is a denial-of-service vulnerability in the media subsystem of Google Chrome versions prior to 50.0.2661.75, also affecting Canonical, Debian, OpenSUSE, and SUSE distributions. This medium-severity flaw (CVSS 6.5) allows remote attackers to trigger an invalid read operation through unspecified vectors, requiring user interaction. While no public exploits or Metasploit modules exist, the vulnerability has garnered minimal community discussion and limited media coverage, indicating low active exploitation.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
42.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:42.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
12.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise:12.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 49.0.2623.112CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
14.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.20%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
65.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0120 is in the 78th percentile among its peer group of 26,221 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 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-0:50.0.2661.75-1.el6
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2016-1654Moderate

chromium-browser: uninitialized memory read in media

Apr 13, 2016

References

googlechromereleases.blogspot.com / 2016/04/stable-channel-update_13.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00040.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00041.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00049.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00050.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-0638.html
crbug.com / 589512
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201605-02
debian.org / security/2016/dsa-3549
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2955-1