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CVE-2015-1298

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.3% 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 RuntimeEventRouter::OnExtensionUninstalled function in extensions/browser/api/runtime/runtime_api.cc in Google Chrome before 45.0.2454.85 does not ensure that the setUninstallURL preference corresponds to the URL of a web site, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to trigger access to an arbitrary URL via a crafted extension that is uninstalled.

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=518827
• https://codereview.chromium.org/1282263002/
• 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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