VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-8501

medium
Published 2016-10-26 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
5.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.3

Description

Security WiFi bypass in Yandex Browser from version 15.10 to 15.12 allows remote attacker to sniff traffic in open or WEP-protected wi-fi networks despite of special security mechanism is enabled.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
63%
Patch ETA
—

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.

✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
yandexyandex_browser15.10.2454.3845
yandexyandex_browser15.12.0.6151
yandexyandex_browser15.12.1.6475

References

CWEs

CWE-264

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

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