PT-2016-1350 · Opera+4 · Opera+4

Published 2016-03-02 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2016-1638

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.8

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Google Chrome versions prior to 49.0.2623.75 Opera (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is related to the extensions/renderer/resources/platform app.js in the Extensions subsystem, which does not properly restrict the use of Web APIs. This allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via a crafted platform app.

Recommendations For Google Chrome versions prior to 49.0.2623.75, update to version 49.0.2623.75 or later to resolve the issue. For Opera, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Improper Access Control

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-284

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-1283

BDU:2016-00649

CVE-2016-1638

DSA-3507-1

MGASA-2016-0127

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_0664-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_0684-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_0729-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10171-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:12948-1

RHSA-2016:0359

RHSA-2016_0359

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Google Chrome

Opera

Red Hat

Suse

References · 2363

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-1638 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00014.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-1638 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2016-00649 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:12948-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00018.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00015.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0127.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3507-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-1638 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3507 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-1638 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-1638 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2016-0127 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00028.html · Vendor Advisory