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CVE-2015-1216

19
FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-1216 describes a use-after-free vulnerability in the V8Window::namedPropertyGetterCustom function within Google Chrome's Blink rendering engine, affecting Canonical, Google, and Red Hat products. This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service or potentially achieve other unspecified impacts through frame detachment. With a CVSS score of 7.5, it is considered highly severe due to its network-based attack vector and low attack complexity, potentially leading to partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise. While there is no known active exploitation, public exploit code, or Metasploit/Nuclei modules, the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness within the security community.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 40.0.2214.115CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
14.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
14.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop_supplementary:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_supplementary:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.38%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
69.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0138 is in the 50th percentile among its peer group of 51,551 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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-0:41.0.2272.76-1.el6_6
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2015-1216Important

chromium-browser: Use-after-free in v8 bindings

Mar 3, 2015

References

googlechromereleases.blogspot.com / 2015/03/stable-channel-update.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-0627.html
code.google.com / p/chromium/issues/detail
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201503-12
src.chromium.org / viewvc/blink
securityfocus.com / bid/72901
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2521-1