CVE-2016-5134: Google Chrome

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

net/proxy/proxy_service.cc in the Proxy Auto-Config (PAC) feature in Google Chrome before 52.0.2743.82 does not ensure that URL information is restricted to a scheme, host, and port, which allows remote attackers to discover credentials by operating a server with a PAC script, a related issue to CVE-2016-3763.

Affected products

  • Google Chrome: up to and including 51.0.2704.106

Published 2016-07-23. Last modified 2026-06-17.