CVE-2015-1236

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.5% 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 MediaElementAudioSourceNode::process function in modules/webaudio/MediaElementAudioSourceNode.cpp in the Web Audio API implementation in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 42.0.2311.90, allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and obtain sensitive audio sample values via a crafted web site containing a media 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=313939
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201506-04
https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/blink?revision=189527&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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