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CVE-2014-7929

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-7929 is a use-after-free vulnerability in the HTMLScriptElement::didMoveToNewDocument function within the Blink DOM implementation, affecting Google Chrome versions prior to 40.0.2214.91. This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service or potentially other unspecified impacts by manipulating SCRIPT element movement across documents. With a CVSS score of 7.5, it is considered highly severe, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity, potentially leading to partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise. There is no evidence of active exploitation, and no public exploit code is available in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, though it has received some community discussion and media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 40.0.2214.85CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.60%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
73.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0160 is in the 55th percentile among its peer group of 51,551 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: chromium-browser-0:40.0.2214.91-1.el6_6
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-7929Important

chromium-browser: use-after-free in DOM

Jan 21, 2015

References

googlechromereleases.blogspot.com / 2015/01/stable-update.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00005.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-0093.html
code.google.com / p/chromium/issues/detail
secunia.com / advisories/62383
secunia.com / advisories/62575
secunia.com / advisories/62665
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-201502-13.xml
src.chromium.org / viewvc/blink
securityfocus.com / bid/72288
securitytracker.com / id/1031623
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2476-1