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CVE-2015-1254

• 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: 2015-05-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

core/dom/Document.cpp in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 43.0.2357.65, enables the inheritance of the designMode attribute, which allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy by leveraging the availability of editing.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0
• Google Chrome: through 42.0.2311.152

References

• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/05/stable-channel-update_19.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-05/msg00091.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00015.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3267
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74723
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032375
• https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=444927
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201506-04
• https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/blink?revision=192658&view=revision
• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/05/stable-channel-update_19.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-05/msg00091.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00015.html

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