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CVE-2015-1297

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.1% 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 WebRequest API implementation in extensions/browser/api/web_request/web_request_api.cc in Google Chrome before 45.0.2454.85 does not properly consider a request's source before accepting the request, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via a crafted (1) app or (2) extension.

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=510802
• https://codereview.chromium.org/1267183003/
• 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
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00013.html

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