What is CVE-2016-8508?

CVE-2016-8508 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Yandex Browser, classified under CWE-254. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-03-01.

How severe is CVE-2016-8508?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Yandex Browser

CVE-2016-8508

Yandex Browser for desktop before 17.1.1.227 does not show Protect (similar to Safebrowsing in Chromium) warnings in web-sites with special content-type, which could be used by remote attacker for prevention Protect warning on own malicious web-site.

Published 2017-03-01 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.016 (74.8th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 75th percentile — 74.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.016 · newest: 0.016 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Yandex Browser
Yandex N.v. Browser For Desktop — versions before 17.1.1.227 for OSx and Windows

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-254

References

www.securityfocus.com/bid/96514 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
yandex.com/blog/security-changelogs/fixed-in-version-17-1 (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-8508?: CVE-2016-8508 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Yandex Browser, classified under CWE-254. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-03-01.
How severe is CVE-2016-8508?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.