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CVE-2014-9646

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2015-01-27 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Unquoted Windows search path vulnerability in the GoogleChromeDistribution::DoPostUninstallOperations function in installer/util/google_chrome_distribution.cc in the uninstall-survey feature in Google Chrome before 40.0.2214.91 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse program in the %SYSTEMDRIVE% directory, as demonstrated by program.exe, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-1205.

Affected products

• Google Chrome: through 40.0.2214.85

References

• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/01/stable-update.html
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201502-13.xml
• https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=434964
• https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=449894
• https://codereview.chromium.org/741993002
• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/01/stable-update.html
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201502-13.xml
• https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=434964
• https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=449894
• https://codereview.chromium.org/741993002

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