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CVE-2015-1248

14
FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-1248 describes a vulnerability in the FileSystem API of Google Chrome versions prior to 40.0.2214.91, allowing attackers to bypass SafeBrowsing for Executable Files. This medium-complexity attack (CVSS 4.3) could lead to partial integrity compromise by creating and referencing malicious .exe files, primarily affecting Google Chrome and Debian-based systems. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 40.0.2214.85CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.55%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
72.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0155 is in the 47th percentile among its peer group of 19,958 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 (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-2015-1248Moderate

chromium-browser: SafeBrowsing bypass

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
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201506-04
debian.org / security/2015/dsa-3238
securitytracker.com / id/1032209