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CVE-2015-1244

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% 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-200

Description

The URLRequest::GetHSTSRedirect function in url_request/url_request.cc in Google Chrome before 42.0.2311.90 does not replace the ws scheme with the wss scheme whenever an HSTS Policy is active, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by sniffing the network for WebSocket traffic.

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://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/net/+/2359906c4fdfa9d44b045755d23fe5327c10e010
• https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=455215
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201506-04
• 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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