A missing check for whether a property of a JS object is private in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 55.0.2883.75 allowed a remote attacker to…

Published 7 y ago 2019-01-09 · modified 4 mo ago 2026-06-17 · JSON

CVSS

8.8

v3.0 · NVD

CISA KEV

not known exploited

EPSS

11.2%

percentile 96%

Public exploits

Exploit-DB

A missing check for whether a property of a JS object is private in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 55.0.2883.75 allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code inside a sandbox via a crafted HTML page.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

11.18% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs.

Exploits and detections

EDB-42175 Google Chrome - V8 Private Property Arbitrary Code Execution · remote · 2017-06-14

CVSS scores

Assigned by	Version	Score	Vector
NVD	3.0	8.8	`CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`
NVD	2.0	6.8	`AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P`

Affected products

Google Chrome

Classification

Weakness

CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code

Technology feeds

Google Chrome (RSS, critical only)

References

rhn.redhat.com /errata/RHSA-2016-2919.html · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT, x_transferred
securityfocus.com /bid/94633 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, x_transferred
crbug.com /664411 · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred
exploit-db.com /exploits/42175/ · exploit, x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB, x_transferred
chromereleases.googleblog.com /2016/12/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred
security.gentoo.org /glsa/201612-11 · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO, x_transferred

Sources

CVE List: CVE-2016-9651
NVD: CVE-2016-9651

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Summary