Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Google Chrome Extensions API

CVE-2016-5201 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

A leak of privateClass in the extensions API in Google Chrome prior to 54.0.2840.100 for Linux, and 54.0.2840.99 for Windows, and 54.0.2840.98 for Mac allowed a remote attacker to access privileged JavaScript code via a crafted HTML page.

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