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CVE-2015-1286

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2015-07-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the V8ContextNativeHandler::GetModuleSystem function in extensions/renderer/v8_context_native_handler.cc in Google Chrome before 44.0.2403.89 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by leveraging the lack of a certain V8 context restriction, aka a Blink "Universal XSS (UXSS)."

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0
• Google Chrome: through 43.0.2357.134
• Opensuse: 13.1, 13.2
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary: 6.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary: 6.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary Eus: 6.7z
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary: 6.0

References

• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/07/stable-channel-update_21.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00038.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1499.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3315
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75973
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033031
• https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=504011
• https://codereview.chromium.org/1231803002/
• https://codereview.chromium.org/1235863003/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-09
• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/07/stable-channel-update_21.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00038.html

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