PT-2016-4898 · Google · Google Chrome

Published 2016-05-14 · Updated 2016-12-01 · CVE-2016-1671

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

8.1

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Google Chrome versions prior to 50.0.2661.102 on Android

Description The issue is related to the mishandling of / (slash) and (backslash) characters in file: URLs, which can lead to directory traversal attacks. This is connected to the net/base/escape.cc and net/base/filename util.cc components.

Recommendations For Google Chrome versions prior to 50.0.2661.102 on Android, update to version 50.0.2661.102 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Path traversal

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-22

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-1671

Affected Products

Google Chrome

References · 13

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-1671 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-1671 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-1671 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-02 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-1671 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-1671 · Security Note
• https://codereview.chromium.org/1704163003 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id/1035872 · Note
• https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/message/raw?msg=chromium-reviews/UkMGbbnTDW8/A4g-6YkfBAAJ · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/90584 · Note
• https://crbug.com/586657 · Note
• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.ca/2016/05/stable-channel-update.html · Note
• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/05/stable-channel-update.html · Note