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.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 52.0.2743.82CPE 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.