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CVE-2016-1665

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-1665 describes an information disclosure vulnerability in the JSGenericLowering class of Google V8, affecting Google Chrome versions prior to 50.0.2661.94, as well as products from openSUSE and Red Hat. This medium-severity flaw, with a CVSS score of 6.5, allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information through crafted JavaScript due to mishandled comparison operators, requiring user interaction but with low attack complexity. While there is no evidence of active exploitation, nor publicly available exploit code in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, the vulnerability garnered significant community discussion and media coverage at the time of its disclosure.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
13.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop_supplementary:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_supplementary:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.7zCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_supplementary_eus:6.7z:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation_supplementary:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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:H/I:N/A:N

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

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.81%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
76.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0181 is in the 88th percentile among its peer group of 26,220 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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-0:50.0.2661.94-1.el6
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2016-1665Moderate

chromium-browser: information leak in v8

Apr 28, 2016

References

googlechromereleases.blogspot.com / 2016/04/stable-channel-update_28.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00002.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00003.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00004.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00048.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-0707.html
codereview.chromium.org / 1925463003
crbug.com / 606181
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201605-02
debian.org / security/2016/dsa-3564
securityfocus.com / bid/89106
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2960-1