CVE-2016-1627

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    CVE-2016-1627

    Published: 14 Feb 2016Last Modified: 10 Mar 2026

    Summary:

    Details: The Developer Tools (aka DevTools) subsystem in Google Chrome before 48.0.2564.109 does not validate URL schemes and ensure that the remoteBase parameter is associated with a chrome-devtools-frontend.appspot.com URL, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via a crafted URL, related to browser/devtools/devtools_ui_bindings.cc and WebKit/Source/devtools/front_end/Runtime.js.

    References: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00104.html, https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=571121, https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=585517, https://codereview.chromium.org/1586903002, , http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00119.html, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/83125, http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035183, https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-09, http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3486, http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0241.html, http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/02/stable-channel-update_9.html

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    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

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    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
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    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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