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CVE-2016-5198
CWE-787
Critical
97.1
RPSRPS range: 0–105; KEV-listed vulnerabilities can receive an exploitation amplifier.
Description
V8 in Google Chrome prior to 54.0.2840.90 for Linux, and 54.0.2840.85 for Android, and 54.0.2840.87 for Windows and Mac included incorrect optimisation assumptions, which allowed a remote attacker to perform arbitrary read/write operations, leading to code execution, via a crafted HTML page.
Source: NVD
Signals
- CVSS
- 8.8
- High · v3.1
- EPSS
- 34.16%
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (FIRST)
- CISA KEV
- In CISA KEV since Jun 2022
- Fix commit
- No known fix commit
- Sources: MoreFixes, FreshFixes
- Weakness
- CWE-787
- Published
- 19 Jan 2017
- Last modified 21 Apr 2026
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Data as of 7 Oct 2026, 05:16 UK time