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CVE-2016-5153

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-5153 is a use-after-destruction vulnerability in the Web Animations implementation of Blink, affecting Google Chrome on Windows, OS X, and Linux, as well as Google Leap and OpenSUSE Chrome/Leap. This flaw, rated 8.8 HIGH, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or potentially other impacts through a crafted website, requiring user interaction. There is no evidence of active exploitation, and no public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB) is available. Despite its age, it has received some community discussion and media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
42.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:42.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 52.0.2743.116CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

8.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.11%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
62.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0111 is in the 62nd percentile among its peer group of 14,848 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.1 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 SupplementaryFixed in: chromium-browser-0:53.0.2785.89-3.el6
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2016-5153Important

chromium-browser: use after destruction in blink

Aug 31, 2016

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-09/msg00003.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-09/msg00004.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-09/msg00008.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2016-09/msg00073.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-1854.html
codereview.chromium.org / 2188623006
codereview.chromium.org / 2189813002
crbug.com / 631052
googlechromereleases.blogspot.com / 2016/08/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_31.html
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201610-09
debian.org / security/2016/dsa-3660
securityfocus.com / bid/92717
securitytracker.com / id/1036729