CVE-2016-5142
The Web Cryptography API (aka WebCrypto) implementation in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 52.0.2743.116, does not properly copy…
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- Chrome
Description
The Web Cryptography API (aka WebCrypto) implementation in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 52.0.2743.116, does not properly copy data buffers, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (use-after-free) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted JavaScript code, related to NormalizeAlgorithm.cpp and SubtleCrypto.cpp.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Chrome
- 2 months later
· 2 months 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 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.7% · top 23% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (11)
- 92276 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2016:1983 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- RHSA-2016:1580 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://codereview.chromium.org/2141843002/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1036547 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- https://crbug.com/626948 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- GLSA-201610-09 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/08/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2016:1982 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- DSA-3645 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- FEDORA-2016-e9798eaaa3 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_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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