CVE-2016-5133

medium

Published 2016-07-23 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

5.3

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.3

Description

Google Chrome before 52.0.2743.82 mishandles origin information during proxy authentication, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof a proxy-authentication login prompt or trigger incorrect credential storage by modifying the client-server data stream.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

63%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
google	chrome	`{"endIncluding":"51.0.2704.106"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-287

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.