CVE-2015-1297
The WebRequest API implementation in extensions/browser/api/web_request/web_request_api.cc in Google Chrome before 45.0.2454.85 does not properly consider a request's source before accepting the request, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended…
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (2.14%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
The WebRequest API implementation in extensions/browser/api/web_request/web_request_api.cc in Google Chrome before 45.0.2454.85 does not properly consider a request's source before accepting the request, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via a crafted (1) app or (2) extension.
- CVSS 2.0
- 7.5 HIGHAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- EPSS
- 2.14% probability · 81th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-254
- Affected
- google/chrome
- Source
- chrome-cve-admin@google.com
References
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/09/stable-channel-update.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-09/msg00029.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00013.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1712.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3351
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033472
- https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=510802
- https://codereview.chromium.org/1267183003/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-09
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/09/stable-channel-update.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-09/msg00029.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00013.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1712.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3351
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033472
- https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=510802
- https://codereview.chromium.org/1267183003/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-09
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.