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CVE-2016-1671

Status: ModifiedHigh (8.1)—

Google Chrome before 50.0.2661.102 on Android mishandles / (slash) and \ (backslash) characters, which allows attackers to conduct directory traversal attacks via a file: URL, related to net/base/escape.cc and net/base/filename_util.cc.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (1)

Google — Chrome

CWEs

References

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