CVE-2015-1226

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

The DebuggerFunction::InitAgentHost function in browser/extensions/api/debugger/debugger_api.cc in Google Chrome before 41.0.2272.76 does not properly restrict what URLs are available as debugger targets, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via a crafted extension.

Affected products

Google Chrome: through 40.0.2214.115

References

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/03/stable-channel-update.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0627.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72901
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=456841
https://codereview.chromium.org/910053002
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-12
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/03/stable-channel-update.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0627.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72901
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=456841
https://codereview.chromium.org/910053002
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-12

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