CVE-2016-1635: Google Chrome

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

extensions/renderer/render_frame_observer_natives.cc in Google Chrome before 49.0.2623.75 does not properly consider object lifetimes and re-entrancy issues during OnDocumentElementCreated handling, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (use-after-free) or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors.

Affected products

• Google Chrome: up to and including 48.0.2564.116

Published 2016-03-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.