PT-2016-1733 · Opera+4 · Opera+4

Luan Herrera · Published 2016-04-13 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2016-1657

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Google Chrome versions prior to 50.0.2661.75 Opera (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue exists due to the mishandling of focus for certain about:blank pages by the WebContentsImpl::FocusLocationBarByDefault function. This can be exploited by remote attackers to spoof the address bar using a crafted URL.

Recommendations For Google Chrome versions prior to 50.0.2661.75, update to version 50.0.2661.75 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.

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-254

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-2194

BDU:2016-01059

CVE-2016-1657

DSA-3549-1

MGASA-2016-0143

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_1061-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_1135-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_1136-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10171-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:12948-1

RHSA-2016:0638

RHSA-2016_0638

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Google Chrome

Opera

Red Hat

Suse

References · 2355

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00040.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-1657 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2016-0143 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:12948-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-1657 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-02 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-1657 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-1657 · Security Note
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00041.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0143.html · Security Note
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00049.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10171-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3549 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-1657 · Vendor Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0638.html · Vendor Advisory