CVE-2015-1248

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 FileSystem API in Google Chrome before 40.0.2214.91 allows remote attackers to bypass the SafeBrowsing for Executable Files protection mechanism by creating a .exe file in a temporary filesystem and then referencing this file with a filesystem:http: URL.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 7.0
Google Chrome: through 40.0.2214.85

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://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3238
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032209
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=380663
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
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00024.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0816.html

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