CVE-2016-1671: Google Chrome

High severity, CVSS 8.1. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Google Chrome before 50.0.2661.102 on Android mishandles / (slash) and \ (backslash) characters, which allows attackers to conduct directory traversal attacks via a file: URL, related to net/base/escape.cc and net/base/filename_util.cc.

Affected products

• Google Chrome: up to and including 50.0.2661.87

Published 2016-05-14. Last modified 2026-06-17.