CVE-2015-1296

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 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: 2015-09-03 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-254

Description

The UnescapeURLWithAdjustmentsImpl implementation in net/base/escape.cc in Google Chrome before 45.0.2454.85 does not prevent display of Unicode LOCK characters in the omnibox, which makes it easier for remote attackers to spoof the SSL lock icon by placing one of these characters at the end of a URL, as demonstrated by the omnibox in localizations for right-to-left languages.

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=421332
https://codereview.chromium.org/1180393003/
https://codereview.chromium.org/1189553002/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-09
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/09/stable-channel-update.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-09/msg00029.html

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