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CVE-2015-6766

24
FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-6766 is a use-after-free vulnerability in the AppCache implementation of Google Chrome versions prior to 47.0.2526.73. This flaw allows a remote attacker with renderer access to trigger a denial of service or potentially achieve other unspecified impacts due to incorrect AppCacheUpdateJob behavior. With a CVSS score of 7.5, this vulnerability is considered highly severe, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity, potentially leading to partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. The EPSS score is low, suggesting a low probability of exploitation. There is no known active exploitation, and no public exploit code is available in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB. Despite this, the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, indicating a degree of awareness within the security community.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 46.0.2490.86CPE 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
1.92%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
77.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0192 is in the 61st percentile among its peer group of 51,553 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 SupplementaryFixed in: chromium-browser-0:47.0.2526.73-1.el6
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2015-6766Important

chromium-browser: Use-after-free in AppCache

Dec 1, 2015

References

googlechromereleases.blogspot.com / 2015/12/stable-channel-update.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00016.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00017.html
code.google.com / p/chromium/issues/detail
codereview.chromium.org / 1418783005
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201603-09
debian.org / security/2015/dsa-3415
securityfocus.com / bid/78416
securitytracker.com / id/1034298
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2825-1