PT-2016-2140 · Opera+4 · Opera+4

Published 2016-06-01 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2016-1698

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Google Chrome versions prior to 51.0.2704.79 Opera (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is related to the createCustomType function in the extensions/renderer/resources/binding.js module of the extension bindings. This function does not validate module types, which could allow remote attackers to load arbitrary modules or obtain sensitive information by leveraging a poisoned definition.

Recommendations For Google Chrome versions prior to 51.0.2704.79, update to version 51.0.2704.79 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.

Information Disclosure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-2194

BDU:2016-01493

CVE-2016-1698

DSA-3594-1

MGASA-2016-0218

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_1489-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_1496-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10171-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:12948-1

RHSA-2016:1201

RHSA-2016_1201

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Google Chrome

Opera

Red Hat

Suse

References · 2355

• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1201 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-1698 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:12948-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00003.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3594-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0218.html · Security Note
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00005.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2016-01493 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-1698 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2016-0218 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3594 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00004.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-1698 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10171-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-1698 · Vendor Advisory