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CVE-2016-5165

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Developer Tools (aka DevTools) subsystem in Google Chrome before 53.0.2785.89 on Windows…

Medium6.1EPSS 1.2%
Published
Updated
Reserved
Assigned by
Chrome

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Developer Tools (aka DevTools) subsystem in Google Chrome before 53.0.2785.89 on Windows and OS X and before 53.0.2785.92 on Linux allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the settings parameter in a chrome-devtools-frontend.appspot.com URL's query string.

Timeline

  1. ID reserved

    By Chrome

  2. · 3 months later

    Published

  3. · 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

CVSS scores of CVE-2016-5165, by who scored it
Scored byCVSSScoreVector
NVDNVD · Modified3.0Medium6.1CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
1.2% · top 30% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.1.

Weakness

Affected products

  • n/a

    • affected n/a

References (12)

Sources

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