CVE-2016-1627
The Developer Tools (aka DevTools) subsystem in Google Chrome before 48.0.2564.109 does not validate URL schemes and ensure that the…
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- Updated
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- Chrome
Description
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Chrome
- 33 days later
· 33 days later
Published
- 8 years later
· 8 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.3% · top 29% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (11)
- https://codereview.chromium.org/1586903002 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 83125 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 1035183 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=585517 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=571121 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/02/stable-channel-update_9.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- GLSA-201603-09 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2016:0491 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2016:0518 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- DSA-3486 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- RHSA-2016:0241 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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