CVE-2016-5144

Publication date 7 August 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

The Developer Tools (aka DevTools) subsystem in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 52.0.2743.116, mishandles the script-path hostname, remoteBase parameter, and remoteFrontendUrl parameter, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via a crafted URL, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-5143.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
chromium-browser	16.10 yakkety	Fixed 53.0.2785.143-0ubuntu1.1307
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 52.0.2743.116-0ubuntu0.16.04.1.1250
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 52.0.2743.116-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1134
	12.04 LTS precise	Ignored
oxide-qt	16.10 yakkety	Fixed 1.16.7-0ubuntu1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 1.17.7-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 1.17.7-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
	12.04 LTS precise	Not in release

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3058-1
Oxide vulnerabilities
14 September 2016