CVE-2015-1235

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-04-19 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The ContainerNode::parserRemoveChild function in core/dom/ContainerNode.cpp in the HTML parser in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 42.0.2311.90, allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy via a crafted HTML document with an IFRAME element.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 14.10, 15.04
Debian Linux: 8.0
Google Chrome: through 42.0.2311.60

References

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/04/stable-channel-update_14.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-04/msg00040.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00024.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0816.html
http://ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2570-1
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3238
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032209
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=456518
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201506-04
https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/blink?revision=190980&view=revision
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/04/stable-channel-update_14.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-04/msg00040.html

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