CVE-2016-8506

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Published 2016-10-26 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

6.1

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.1

Description

XSS in Yandex Browser Translator in Yandex browser for desktop for versions from 15.12 to 16.2 could be used by remote attacker for evaluation arbitrary javascript code.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

71%

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
yandex	yandex_browser	`15.2.2214.3645`
yandex	yandex_browser	`15.4.2272.3429`
yandex	yandex_browser	`15.6.2311.5029`
yandex	yandex_browser	`15.12.0.6151`
yandex	yandex_browser	`15.12.1.6475`
yandex	yandex_browser	`16.2.0.3539`

References

CWEs

CWE-79

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

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