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CVE-2016-5214

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-5214 describes a vulnerability in Google Chrome prior to version 55.0.2883.75 for Windows, where a crafted HTML page could prevent downloaded files from receiving the Mark of the Web. This medium-severity vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3, indicating a low impact on integrity (I:L) and requiring user interaction (UI:R) for exploitation. There is no evidence of active exploitation, readily available exploit code in common frameworks like Metasploit or ExploitDB, and it has received minimal community discussion and media coverage.

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

4.3MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.35%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
68.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0135 is in the 81st 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-2016-5214Moderate

chromium-browser: file download protection bypass

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 / 601538
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201612-11
securityfocus.com / bid/94633