CVE-2016-5218: Google Chrome

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The extensions API in Google Chrome prior to 55.0.2883.75 for Mac, Windows and Linux, and 55.0.2883.84 for Android incorrectly handled navigation within PDFs, which allowed a remote attacker to temporarily spoof the contents of the Omnibox (URL bar) via a crafted HTML page containing PDF data.

Affected products

• Google Chrome: up to and including 54.0.2840.99

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