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CVE-2015-1240

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-1240 describes an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the WebGL implementation of Google Chrome versions prior to 42.0.2311.90, impacting various Canonical and Debian Linux distributions. A remote attacker could exploit this by crafting a malicious WebGL program, leading to a denial of service. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is of medium severity, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity, though its impact is limited to availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 42.0.2311.60CPE 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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
15.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:15.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.24%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
66.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0124 is in the 45th percentile among its peer group of 23,725 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, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 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-0:42.0.2311.90-1.el6_6
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2015-1240Moderate

chromium-browser: Out-of-bounds read in WebGL

Apr 14, 2015

References

googlechromereleases.blogspot.com / 2015/04/stable-channel-update_14.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2015-04/msg00040.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00024.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-0816.html
code.google.com / p/chromium/issues/detail
codereview.chromium.org / 978193003
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201506-04
ubuntu.com / usn/usn-2570-1
debian.org / security/2015/dsa-3238
securitytracker.com / id/1032209