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CVE-2015-6789

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2015-12-14 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-362

Description

Race condition in the MutationObserver implementation in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 47.0.2526.80, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (use-after-free) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging unanticipated object deletion.

Affected products

• Google Chrome: through 47.0.2526.73

References

• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/12/stable-channel-update_8.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00016.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00017.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2618.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3418
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/78734
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2860-1
• https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=557981
• https://codereview.chromium.org/1463433002/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-09
• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/12/stable-channel-update_8.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00016.html

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