CVE-2016-5198

HIGH8.8

CISA KEV

Published 2017-01-19 · Updated 2026-06-17 · Source chrome-cve-admin@google.com

Summary

CVE-2016-5198 is a high-severity (CVSS 8.8) vulnerability in Google Chromium V8. CISA added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on June 8, 2022, which means exploitation in the wild has been confirmed; US federal agencies had to remediate it by June 22, 2022. CISA does not currently list it as used in ransomware campaigns. Google has 76 vulnerabilities in the KEV catalog, 0 of them linked to ransomware.

All 76 known-exploited Google vulnerabilities →

Description

V8 in Google Chrome prior to 54.0.2840.90 for Linux, and 54.0.2840.85 for Android, and 54.0.2840.87 for Windows and Mac included incorrect optimisation assumptions, which allowed a remote attacker to perform arbitrary read/write operations, leading to code execution, via a crafted HTML page.

CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE-787CWE-787

CISA Known-Exploited Vulnerability

Product: Google — Chromium V8

Name: Google Chromium V8 Out-of-Bounds Memory Vulnerability

Date added: 2022-06-08 · Due: 2022-06-22

Required action: Apply updates per vendor instructions.

References

View on NVD

More exploited Google vulnerabilities

Most recently added to CISA KEV

CVE-2026-111497
Brotli — Google Brotli Unchecked Return Value Vulnerability
added 2026-10-27
CVE-2026-58704
Pixel — Google Pixel Improper Authorization Vulnerability
added 2026-09-16
CVE-2026-87491
Chromium V8 — Google Chromium V8 Out of Bounds Write Vulnerability
added 2026-09-09
CVE-2026-85046
Chromium V8 — Google Chromium V8 Type Confusion Vulnerability
added 2026-09-04
CVE-2026-11645
Chromium V8 — Google Chromium V8 Out-of-Bounds Read and Write Vulnerability
added 2026-06-09
CVE-2026-5281
Dawn — Google Dawn Use-After-Free Vulnerability
added 2026-04-01

View all →

Related CVEs

Same severity, most recent

CVE-2026-65960
Tetragon is an eBPF-based security observability and runtime enforcement project. Versions before 1.7.0 can use a Helm default that exposes the privileged Tetragon gRPC API through an unauthenticated TCP listener on localhost:54321. An attacker who can run or compromise same-node hostNetwork pods can reach the listener and invoke privileged methods without authentication. These methods can add, delete, or reconfigure tracing policies and change debug settings, potentially resulting in privilege escalation or container escape. Version 1.7.0 changes the default endpoint to a Unix-domain socket. Deployments that do not expose an unauthenticated TCP listener are not affected.
2026-11-06 · score 8.8
CVE-2026-33050
GeoNode is a geospatial content management system, a platform for the management and publication of geospatial data. Prior to 5.1.0, a crafted vector file layer name supplied during upload allows a low-privileged remote user to inject shell syntax and execute arbitrary operating-system commands on the GeoNode server. This issue is fixed in version 5.1.0.
2026-11-06 · score 8.8
CVE-2026-124040
CivetWeb through 1.16, when built with USE_HTTP2 and enable_http2 on, contains a use-after-free vulnerability in handle_http2() that retains freed :method and :path pointers. Unauthenticated remote attackers can send a later HEADERS frame omitting these pseudo-headers to influence request method or path seen by access rules, or crash the server.
2026-11-06 · score 8.1
CVE-2026-124027
ChatWiki before 2.10.0 contains a missing authentication vulnerability in the GET /manage/getLibRawFileOnePage route that allows unauthenticated attackers to read other tenants' documents. Attackers can enumerate sequential admin_user_id and file id query parameters, bypassing the ownership check, to retrieve PDF-rendered pages of any tenant's knowledge-base documents.
2026-11-06 · score 7.5
CVE-2026-123974
In all versions of PyTorch's TorchServe, a predictable extraction directory in /tmp lets a local user swap the model handler and run code as the TorchServe service account leading to local privilege escalation.
2026-11-06 · score 7.8