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CVE-2016-5208

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-5208 describes a DOM tree corruption vulnerability in Blink, affecting Google Chrome versions prior to 55.0.2883.75 on Linux and Windows, and 55.0.2883.84 on Android. This flaw allowed a remote attacker to inject arbitrary scripts or HTML (UXSS) through a specially crafted HTML page. With a CVSS score of 6.1 (Medium), exploitation requires user interaction (UI:R) and could lead to low impact on confidentiality and integrity (C:L/I:L). While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog and lacking public 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
<= 54.0.2840.99CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.1MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
2.7
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.09%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
62.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0109 is in the 75th percentile among its peer group of 26,221 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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-0:55.0.2883.75-1.el6
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2016-5208Important

chromium-browser: universal xss in blink

Dec 1, 2016

References

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-2919.html
chromereleases.googleblog.com / 2016/12/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
crbug.com / 658535
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201612-11
securityfocus.com / bid/94633