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CVE-2015-1241 json

Google Chrome before 42.0.2311.90 does not properly consider the interaction of page navigation with the handling of touch events and gestu…

published 2015-04-19 11 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2015-1382

cvss
4.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.2%
EPSS 2.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 82%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Google Chrome before 42.0.2311.90 does not properly consider the interaction of page navigation with the handling of touch events and gesture events, which allows remote attackers to trigger unintended UI actions via a crafted web site that conducts a "tapjacking" attack.

Patch / fix

  • google chrome 42.0.2311.90
  • oxide-qt Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 1.6.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
  • chromium-browser Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 43.0.2357.81-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1089

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2015-1241

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • chromium-browser RHEL 6 EXTRAS 42.0.2311.90-1.el6_6

red hat advisories RHSA-2015:0816

  • chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 55.0.2883.75-3.1
  • chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 113.0.5672.92-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10171-1openSUSE-SU-2024:12948-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2015-1241 updated cvss 6.4

chromium-browser: tap-jacking vulnerability

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 42.0.2311.90-1.el6_6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 42.0.2311.90-1.el6_6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 42.0.2311.90-1.el6_6
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2015:0816

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.16% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 82% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • code.google.com https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=418402 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-1021 Improper Restriction of Rendered UI Layers or Frames
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References

Sources

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