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CVE-2015-1288

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-1288 describes a vulnerability in Google Chrome's Spellcheck API, affecting Debian, Google, OpenSUSE, and Red Hat products. The flaw allows man-in-the-middle attackers to deliver malicious Hunspell dictionaries due to the API not using HTTPS for dictionary downloads. With a CVSS score of 6.8, this vulnerability has a network attack vector, medium attack complexity, and potential impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 43.0.2357.134CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.7zCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_supplementary_eus:6.7z:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.8MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.08%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
61.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0108 is in the 23rd 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: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 SupplementaryFixed in: chromium-browser-0:44.0.2403.89-1.el6
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2015-1288Low

chromium-browser: Spell checking dictionaries fetched over HTTP in unspecified

Jul 21, 2015

References

googlechromereleases.blogspot.com / 2015/07/stable-channel-update_21.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00038.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-1499.html
code.google.com / p/chromium/issues/detail
codereview.chromium.org / 1056103005
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201603-09
debian.org / security/2015/dsa-3315
securityfocus.com / bid/75973
securitytracker.com / id/1033031