CVE-2016-5197: Google Chrome

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

The content view client in Google Chrome prior to 54.0.2840.85 for Android insufficiently validated intent URLs, which allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to start arbitrary activity on the system 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.