CVE-2016-5164: Google Chrome

Medium severity, CVSS 6.1. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in WebKit/Source/platform/v8_inspector/V8Debugger.cpp in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 53.0.2785.89 on Windows and OS X and before 53.0.2785.92 on Linux, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML into the Developer Tools (aka DevTools) subsystem via a crafted web site, aka "Universal XSS (UXSS)."

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.