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CVE-2016-5144

30
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-5144 is a critical vulnerability affecting the Developer Tools subsystem in Google Chrome versions prior to 52.0.2743.116. It allows remote attackers to bypass access restrictions by manipulating script-path, remoteBase, and remoteFrontendUrl parameters in a crafted URL. With a CVSS score of 9.8, this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with no user interaction, leading to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no known active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), it has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness of its potential severity.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 52.0.2743.82CPE 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
1.70%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
74.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0170 is in the 63rd 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-0:52.0.2743.116-1.el6
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2016-5144Moderate

chromium-browser: Parameter sanitization failure in DevTools

Aug 3, 2016

References

googlechromereleases.blogspot.com / 2016/08/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00005.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00006.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-1580.html
codereview.chromium.org / 2065823004
crbug.com / 618333
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4KMX62M7UNRLWO4FEQ6YIMPMTKXXJV6A
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201610-09
debian.org / security/2016/dsa-3645
securityfocus.com / bid/92276
securitytracker.com / id/1036547