CVE-2015-1291

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-09-03 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The ContainerNode::parserRemoveChild function in core/dom/ContainerNode.cpp in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 45.0.2454.85, does not check whether a node is expected, which allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy or cause a denial of service (DOM tree corruption) via a web site with crafted JavaScript code and IFRAME elements.

Affected products

Google Chrome: through 44.0.2403

References

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/09/stable-channel-update.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-09/msg00029.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00013.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1712.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3351
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033472
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=516377
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-09
https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/blink?revision=200098&view=revision
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/09/stable-channel-update.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-09/msg00029.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00013.html

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