CVE-2016-5220
published 2017-01-19CVE-2016-5220: PDFium in Google Chrome prior to 55.0.2883.75 for Mac, Windows and Linux, and 55.0.2883.84 for Android incorrectly handled navigation within PDFs, which…
PriorityP429medium6.5CVSS 3.0
AVNACLPRNUIRSUCHINAN
EPSS
1.12%
63.0th percentile
PDFium in Google Chrome prior to 55.0.2883.75 for Mac, Windows and Linux, and 55.0.2883.84 for Android incorrectly handled navigation within PDFs, which allowed a remote attacker to read local files via a crafted PDF file.
Affected
1 ranges
| Vendor | Product | Version range | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| chrome | <= 54.0.2840.99 | — |
CVSS provenance
nvdv3.06.5MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
nvdv2.04.3MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
osv6.5MEDIUM
vendor_redhat6.5MEDIUM
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Red Hat
chromium-browser: local file access in pdfium
vendor_redhat·2016-12-01·CVSS 6.5
CVE-2016-5220 [MEDIUM] chromium-browser: local file access in pdfium
chromium-browser: local file access in pdfium
PDFium in Google Chrome prior to 55.0.2883.75 for Mac, Windows and Linux, and 55.0.2883.84 for Android incorrectly handled navigation within PDFs, which allowed a remote attacker to read local files via a crafted PDF file.
VulDB
Google Chrome up to 55 PDFium information disclosure (RHSA-2016:2919 / Nessus ID 95546)
vuldb·2026-05-14·CVSS 6.5
CVE-2016-5220 [MEDIUM] Google Chrome up to 55 PDFium information disclosure (RHSA-2016:2919 / Nessus ID 95546)
A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Google Chrome up to 55. Impacted is an unknown function of the component PDFium. The manipulation results in information disclosure.
This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2016-5220. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available.
You should upgrade the affected component.
GHSA
GHSA-hvwr-h8pg-6q6w: PDFium in Google Chrome prior to 55
ghsa_unreviewed·2022-05-14
CVE-2016-5220 [MEDIUM] CWE-200 GHSA-hvwr-h8pg-6q6w: PDFium in Google Chrome prior to 55
PDFium in Google Chrome prior to 55.0.2883.75 for Mac, Windows and Linux, and 55.0.2883.84 for Android incorrectly handled navigation within PDFs, which allowed a remote attacker to read local files via a crafted PDF file.
OSV
CVE-2016-5220: PDFium in Google Chrome prior to 55
osv·2017-01-19·CVSS 6.5
CVE-2016-5220 [MEDIUM] CVE-2016-5220: PDFium in Google Chrome prior to 55
PDFium in Google Chrome prior to 55.0.2883.75 for Mac, Windows and Linux, and 55.0.2883.84 for Android incorrectly handled navigation within PDFs, which allowed a remote attacker to read local files via a crafted PDF file.
No detection rules found.
No public exploits indexed.
Bugzilla
chromium: various flaws [fedora-all]
bugzilla·2016-12-02·CVSS 8.8
[HIGH] chromium: various flaws [fedora-all]
chromium: various flaws [fedora-all]
This is an automatically created tracking bug! It was created to ensure
that one or more security vulnerabilities are fixed in affected versions
of Fedora.
For comments that are specific to the vulnerability please use bugs filed
against the "Security Response" product referenced in the "Blocks" field.
For more information see:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Security/TrackingBugs
When submitting as an update, use the fedpkg template provided in the next
comment(s). This will include the bug IDs of this tracking bug as well as
the relevant top-level CVE bugs.
Please also mention the CVE IDs being fixed in the RPM changelog and the
fedpkg commit message.
NOTE: this issue affects multiple supported versions of Fedora. While only
one tracking bug has b
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-5220 chromium-browser: local file access in pdfium
bugzilla·2016-12-02·CVSS 6.5
CVE-2016-5220 [MEDIUM] CVE-2016-5220 chromium-browser: local file access in pdfium
CVE-2016-5220 chromium-browser: local file access in pdfium
A local file access flaw was found in the PDFium component of the Chromium browser.
Upstream bug(s):
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=654279
External References:
https://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/12/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
Discussion:
Created chromium tracking bugs for this issue:
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1400883]
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This issue has been addressed in the following products:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary
Via RHSA-2016:2919 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2919.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2919.htmlhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94633https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2016/12/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.htmlhttps://crbug.com/654279https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-11http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2919.htmlhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94633https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2016/12/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.htmlhttps://crbug.com/654279https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-11
2017-01-19
Published