PT-2016-6292 · Google+5 · Google V8+6

Published 2016-09-13 · Updated 2025-09-29 · CVE-2016-5172

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 53.0.2785.113 Opera (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is related to the parser in Google V8, which mishandles scopes. This allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from arbitrary memory locations via crafted JavaScript code.

Recommendations For Google Chrome versions prior to 53.0.2785.113, update to version 53.0.2785.113 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.

Exploit

Information Disclosure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

Related Identifiers

ALSA-2025_16880

ALT-PU-2016-2194

ALT-PU-2016-2380

CVE-2016-5172

DSA-3667-1

MGASA-2016-0309

OPENSUSE-SU-2016:2309-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016:2311-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_2310-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_2311-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10171-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:12948-1

RHSA-2016:1905

RHSA-2016_1905

SUSE-SU-2019:14246-1

SUSE-SU-2019_14246-1

USN-3091-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Google Chrome

Google V8

Opera

Red Hat

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 2595

• 🔥 https://github.com/tunz/js-vuln-db/blob/master/v8/CVE-2016-5172.md · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2016:2311-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-5172 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:12948-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-5171 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3091-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5172 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-7549 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-5170 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2016-0309 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-5177 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10171-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-5175 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3667-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-3091-1 · Vendor Advisory