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CVE-2015-1288

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.1% 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-17

Description

The Spellcheck API implementation in Google Chrome before 44.0.2403.89 does not use an HTTPS session for downloading a Hunspell dictionary, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to deliver incorrect spelling suggestions or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted file, a related issue to CVE-2015-1263.

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=479162
• https://codereview.chromium.org/1056103005
• 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
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1499.html

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