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CVE-2015-1227

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-1227 describes a memory initialization vulnerability in the DragImage::create function within Blink, affecting Google Chrome versions prior to 41.0.2272.76. This flaw allows remote attackers to achieve an unspecified impact by triggering a failed image decoding, such as with an image lacking a default orientation. With a CVSS score of 7.5, this vulnerability is considered high severity, indicating a network-based attack with low complexity that could lead to partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there readily available exploit modules in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, though it 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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.41%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
69.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0141 is in the 51st 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-2015-1227Moderate

chromium-browser: Uninitialized value in blink

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
src.chromium.org / viewvc/blink
securityfocus.com / bid/72901
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2521-1