CVE-2016-5197

Publication date 19 January 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

The content view client in Google Chrome prior to 54.0.2840.85 for Android insufficiently validated intent URLs, which allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to start arbitrary activity on the system via a crafted HTML page.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
chromium-browser	16.10 yakkety	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Not affected

Notes

sbeattie

android only

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 8.8 · High

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	8.8 · High
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H