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CVE-2016-1615 (GCVE-0-2016-1615)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-01-25 11:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 23:02
VLAI
Summary
The Omnibox implementation in Google Chrome before 48.0.2564.82 allows remote attackers to spoof a document's origin via unspecified vectors.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2016-01-20 00:00
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