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CVE-2011-5319

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2015-03-09 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

content/renderer/device_sensors/device_motion_event_pump.cc in Google Chrome before 41.0.2272.76 does not properly restrict access to high-rate accelerometer data, which makes it easier for remote attackers to capture keystrokes via a crafted web site that listens for ondevicemotion events, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-1231.

Affected products

• Google Chrome: through 40.0.2214.115

References

• http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2046771
• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/03/stable-channel-update.html
• http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~traynor/papers/traynor-ccs11.pdf
• https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=421691
• https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=463349
• http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2046771
• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/03/stable-channel-update.html
• http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~traynor/papers/traynor-ccs11.pdf
• https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=421691
• https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=463349

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