CVE-2015-6762

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-10-15 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-254

Description

The CSSFontFaceSrcValue::fetch function in core/css/CSSFontFaceSrcValue.cpp in the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) implementation in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 46.0.2490.71, does not use the CORS cross-origin request algorithm when a font's URL appears to be a same-origin URL, which allows remote web servers to bypass the Same Origin Policy via a redirect.

Affected products

Google Chrome: through 45.0.2454.101

References

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/10/stable-channel-update.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1912.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3376
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77071
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033816
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2770-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2770-2
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=512678
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-09
https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/blink?revision=199364&view=revision
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/10/stable-channel-update.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1912.html

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