CVE-2016-1706

Published on: 07/23/2016 12:00:00 AM UTC

Last Modified on: 03/23/2021 11:27:04 PM UTC

CVE-2016-1706

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Certain versions of Chrome from Google contain the following vulnerability:

The PPAPI implementation in Google Chrome before 52.0.2743.82 does not validate the origin of IPC messages to the plugin broker process that should have come from the browser process, which allows remote attackers to bypass a sandbox protection mechanism via an unexpected message type, related to broker_process_dispatcher.cc, ppapi_plugin_process_host.cc, ppapi_thread.cc, and render_frame_message_filter.cc.

CVE-2016-1706 has been assigned by [email protected] to track the vulnerability - currently rated as - currently rated as CRITICAL severity.

CVSS3 Score: 9.6 - CRITICAL

Attack Vector ^ⓘ	Attack Complexity	Privileges Required	User Interaction
NETWORK	LOW	NONE	REQUIRED
Scope	Confidentiality Impact	Integrity Impact	Availability Impact
CHANGED	HIGH	HIGH	HIGH

CVSS2 Score: 9.3 - HIGH

Access Vector^ⓘ	Access Complexity	Authentication
NETWORK	MEDIUM	NONE
Confidentiality Impact	Integrity Impact	Availability Impact
COMPLETE	COMPLETE	COMPLETE

CVE References

Description	Tags ^ⓘ	Link
Google Chrome Multiple Flaws Lets Remote Users Bypass Same-Origin Restrictions, Obtain Potentially Sensitive Information, Spoof URLs, and Execute Arbitrary Code - SecurityTracker	www.securitytracker.com text/html	SECTRACK 1036428
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2016:1865-1: important: Security update	lists.opensuse.org text/html	SUSE openSUSE-SU-2016:1865
USN-3041-1: Oxide vulnerabilities \| Ubuntu	www.ubuntu.com text/html	UBUNTU USN-3041-1
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-3637-1 chromium-browser	www.debian.org Depreciated Link text/html	DEBIAN DSA-3637
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2016:1869-1: important: Security update	lists.opensuse.org text/html	SUSE openSUSE-SU-2016:1869
Chrome Releases: Stable Channel Update	Vendor Advisory googlechromereleases.blogspot.com text/html	CONFIRM googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/07/stable-channel-update.html
Issue 2069853002: Ignore certain messages in plugin broker process if they are not sent by the - Code Review	Issue Tracking codereview.chromium.org text/html	CONFIRM codereview.chromium.org/2069853002/
610600 - sandbox escape using ppapi broker - chromium - Monorail	crbug.com text/html	CONFIRM crbug.com/610600
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2016:1918-1: important: Security update	lists.opensuse.org text/html	SUSE openSUSE-SU-2016:1918
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2016:1868-1: important: Security update	lists.opensuse.org text/html	SUSE openSUSE-SU-2016:1868
Red Hat Customer Portal	web.archive.org text/html Inactive LinkNot Archived	REDHAT RHSA-2016:1485

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Known Affected Configurations (CPE V2.3)

Type	Vendor	Product	Version	Update	Edition	Language
Application	Google	Chrome	All	All	All	All

cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:

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