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CVE-2016-5225

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-5225 describes a vulnerability in Blink, the rendering engine used in Google Chrome versions prior to 55.0.2883.75 (Mac, Windows, Linux) and 55.0.2883.84 (Android). This flaw allowed a remote attacker to bypass Content Security Policy (CSP) by crafting a malicious HTML page that incorrectly handled form actions. The vulnerability is rated Medium severity (CVSS 4.3), indicating a network-based attack requiring user interaction, with a low impact on integrity and no impact on confidentiality or availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or KEV listing, though it garnered some community discussion and media coverage at the time.

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
1.08%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
61.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0108 is in the 74th percentile among its peer group of 26,219 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-2016-5225Low

chromium-browser: csp bypass 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 / 630332
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201612-11
securityfocus.com / bid/94633