PT-2016-2142 · Opera+4 · Opera+4

Published 2016-06-01 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2016-1696

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

8.8

High

Base vector

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

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 errors in access restriction within the browser extension subsystem, allowing a remote attacker to bypass existing access restriction policies and the Same Origin Policy via unspecified vectors.

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.

Improper Access Control

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-284

CWE-254

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-2194

BDU:2016-01495

CVE-2016-1696

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://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-1696 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:12948-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-1696 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-1696 · 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://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2016-0218 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2016-01495 · Security Note
• http://debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3594 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00004.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10171-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-1696 · Vendor Advisory