CVE-2016-1627: Debian Linux

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Developer Tools (aka DevTools) subsystem in Google Chrome before 48.0.2564.109 does not validate URL schemes and ensure that the remoteBase parameter is associated with a chrome-devtools-frontend.appspot.com URL, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via a crafted URL, related to browser/devtools/devtools_ui_bindings.cc and WebKit/Source/devtools/front_end/Runtime.js.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only
• Google Chrome: up to and including 48.0.2564.103
• Opensuse Opensuse: version 13.1 only

Published 2016-02-14. Last modified 2026-06-17.