CVE-2016-5163: Google Chrome

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The bidirectional-text implementation in Google Chrome before 53.0.2785.89 on Windows and OS X and before 53.0.2785.92 on Linux does not ensure left-to-right (LTR) rendering of URLs, which allows remote attackers to spoof the address bar via crafted right-to-left (RTL) Unicode text, related to omnibox/SuggestionView.java and omnibox/UrlBar.java in Chrome for Android.

Affected products

• Google Chrome: up to and including 52.0.2743.116
• Opensuse Leap: version 42.1 only

Published 2016-09-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.