CVE-2015-1266
content/browser/webui/content_web_ui_controller_factory.cc in Google Chrome before 43.0.2357.130 does not properly consider the scheme in determining whether a URL is associated with a WebUI SiteInstance, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended…
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.49%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
content/browser/webui/content_web_ui_controller_factory.cc in Google Chrome before 43.0.2357.130 does not properly consider the scheme in determining whether a URL is associated with a WebUI SiteInstance, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via a similar URL, as demonstrated by use of http://gpu when there is a WebUI class for handling chrome://gpu requests.
- CVSS 2.0
- 5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- EPSS
- 1.49% probability · 73th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-254
- Affected
- google/chrome
- Source
- chrome-cve-admin@google.com
References
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/06/chrome-stable-update.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-06/msg00057.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00012.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1188.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3315
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75333
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032731
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2652-1
- https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=464922
- https://codereview.chromium.org/1129123004/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201507-18
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/06/chrome-stable-update.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-06/msg00057.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00012.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1188.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3315
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75333
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032731
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2652-1
- https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=464922
- https://codereview.chromium.org/1129123004/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201507-18
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.