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CVE-2015-1217

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-1217 describes a type confusion vulnerability in the V8LazyEventListener::prepareListenerObject function within the Blink V8 bindings, affecting Google Chrome versions prior to 41.0.2272.76, as well as products from Canonical and Red Hat. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 7.5, indicating high severity, and could allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service or potentially other unspecified impacts with low attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there known public exploits in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB. However, the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion and media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 40.0.2214.115CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.6.zCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_supplementary_eus:6.6.z:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation_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
2.16%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
80.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0216 is in the 65th percentile among its peer group of 51,553 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-2015-1217Important

chromium-browser: Type confusion 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
codereview.chromium.org / 910683002
codereview.chromium.org / 958543002
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201503-12
src.chromium.org / viewvc/blink
securityfocus.com / bid/72901
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2521-1