CVE-2014-9689

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-03-09 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

content/renderer/device_sensors/device_orientation_event_pump.cc in Google Chrome before 41.0.2272.76 does not properly restrict access to high-rate gyroscope data, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain speech signals from a device's physical environment via a crafted web site that listens for ondeviceorientation events, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-1231.

Affected products

Google Chrome: through 40.0.2214.115

References

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/03/stable-channel-update.html
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=421691
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=463349
https://crypto.stanford.edu/gyrophone/files/gyromic.pdf
https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity14/technical-sessions/presentation/michalevsky
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/03/stable-channel-update.html
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=421691
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=463349
https://crypto.stanford.edu/gyrophone/files/gyromic.pdf
https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity14/technical-sessions/presentation/michalevsky

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