CVE-2015-1302

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-11-11 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The PDF viewer in Google Chrome before 46.0.2490.86 does not properly restrict scripting messages and API exposure, which allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy via an unintended embedder or unintended plugin loading, related to pdf.js and out_of_process_instance.cc.

Affected products

Google Chrome: through 46.0.2490.80

References

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/11/stable-channel-update.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00120.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00121.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1841.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3415
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77537
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034132
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=520422
https://codereview.chromium.org/1316803003
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-09
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/11/stable-channel-update.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00120.html

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