CVE-2016-5196: Google Chrome

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The content renderer client in Google Chrome prior to 54.0.2840.85 for Android insufficiently enforced the Same Origin Policy amongst downloaded files, which allowed a remote attacker to access any downloaded file and interact with sites, including those the user was logged into, via a crafted HTML page.

Affected products

• Google Chrome: up to and including 54.0.2840.68

Published 2017-01-19. Last modified 2026-06-17.