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Google Chrome Vulnerability: CVE-2016-5201 Info leak in extensions

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Google Chrome Vulnerability: CVE-2016-5201 Info leak in extensions

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
01/19/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
01/24/2017
Modified
11/08/2023

Description

A leak of privateClass in the extensions API in Google Chrome prior to 54.0.2840.100 for Linux, and 54.0.2840.99 for Windows, and 54.0.2840.98 for Mac allowed a remote attacker to access privileged JavaScript code via a crafted HTML page.

Solution(s)

  • google-chrome-upgrade-latest

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