How severe is CVE-2016-5198?

CVE-2016-5198 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 8.8 (HIGH). EPSS estimates a 34.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2016-5198: Google Chromium V8 Out-of-Bounds Memory

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

Google Chromium V8 Out-of-Bounds Memory Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV

2022-06-08

Remediation due

2022-06-22

Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.

CISA notes
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5198

Description

V8 in Google Chrome prior to 54.0.2840.90 for Linux, and 54.0.2840.85 for Android, and 54.0.2840.87 for Windows and Mac included incorrect optimisation assumptions, which allowed a remote attacker to perform arbitrary read/write operations, leading to code execution, via a crafted HTML page.

Severity

CVSS 3.1 · CISA8.8 HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC · CISA-ADP

Exploitationactive

Automatableno

Technical impacttotal

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
-	Google Chrome prior to 54.0.2840.90 for Linux, and 54.0.2840.85 for Android, and 54.0.2840.87 for Windows and Mac	Google Chrome prior to 54.0.2840.90 for Linux, and 54.0.2840.85 for Android, and 54.0.2840.87 for Windows and Mac

References

5 Links

Vendor advisories

RHSA-2016:2672

Vulnerability databases

Other references

Record Details

Published

2017-01-19

Last updated

2025-10-21

Assigner (CNA)

Chrome

Credited to

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