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CVE-2016-5165
published 2016-09-11

CVE-2016-5165: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Developer Tools (aka DevTools) subsystem in Google Chrome before 53.0.2785.89 on Windows and OS X and before…

PriorityP277medium6.1CVSS 3.0
AVNACLPRNUIRSCCLILAN
ITWVulnCheck KEV
Exploited in the wild
EPSS
1.25%
65.6th percentile
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Developer Tools (aka DevTools) subsystem in Google Chrome before 53.0.2785.89 on Windows and OS X and before 53.0.2785.92 on Linux allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the settings parameter in a chrome-devtools-frontend.appspot.com URL's query string.

Affected

2 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
googlechrome<= 52.0.2743.116
opensuseleap

Detection & IOCsextracted from sources · hover to see the quote

urlchrome-devtools-frontend.appspot.com
  • Monitor for XSS payloads delivered via the `settings` query string parameter in requests to chrome-devtools-frontend.appspot.com URLs, which is the injection vector for this CVE.
  • Flag use of Google Chrome versions prior to 53.0.2785.89 (Windows/OS X) or 53.0.2785.92 (Linux) as vulnerable to this DevTools XSS script injection.
  • ·The vulnerability is specific to the DevTools (chrome-devtools-frontend.appspot.com) subsystem; exploitation requires the attacker to influence the `settings` parameter in the DevTools URL query string, limiting the attack surface to scenarios where an attacker can craft or redirect to a malicious DevTools URL.

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.06.1MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
nvdv2.04.3MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
osv7.5HIGH
vulncheck6.1MEDIUM
vendor_ubuntu7.5HIGH
vendor_redhat6.1MEDIUM
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