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CVE-2015-1241

14
FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-1241 describes a tapjacking vulnerability in Google Chrome versions prior to 42.0.2311.90, affecting various Linux distributions. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 4.3) allows remote attackers to trigger unintended user interface actions by crafting malicious websites, leveraging improper handling of touch and gesture events during page navigation. While the attack complexity is medium, the impact is limited to partial integrity loss, with no confidentiality or availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 42.0.2311.90CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
14.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*
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

4.3MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.22%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
80.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0222 is in the 69th percentile among its peer group of 19,956 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, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 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 (2)

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
suseworkaround availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2015-1241Moderate

chromium-browser: tap-jacking vulnerability

Apr 14, 2015

References

googlechromereleases.blogspot.com / 2015/04/stable-channel-update_14.html
Release Notes
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2015-04/msg00040.html
MitigationThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00024.html
MitigationThird Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-0816.html
Third Party Advisory
code.google.com / p/chromium/issues/detail
ExploitIssue TrackingVendor Advisory
codereview.chromium.org / 628763003
Issue TrackingVendor Advisory
codereview.chromium.org / 660663002
Issue TrackingVendor Advisory
codereview.chromium.org / 717573004
Issue TrackingVendor Advisory
codereview.chromium.org / 868123002
Issue TrackingVendor Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201506-04
Third Party Advisory
ubuntu.com / usn/usn-2570-1
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2015/dsa-3238
Third Party Advisory
securitytracker.com / id/1032209
Broken LinkThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry