CVE-2016-5207 describes a DOM tree corruption vulnerability in Google Chrome's Blink rendering engine, affecting versions prior to 55.0.2883.75 on desktop and 55.0.2883.84 on Android. This flaw allowed a remote attacker to achieve arbitrary code execution by enticing a user to visit a specially crafted HTML page. Rated Medium severity with a CVSS score of 6.1, it requires user interaction (UI:R) and could lead to limited confidentiality and integrity impact (C:L, I:L). While the vulnerability garnered significant community discussion and media coverage at the time, there is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are public exploit modules like Metasploit or ExploitDB available.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 54.0.2840.99CPE 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:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
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