FKIE_CVE-2015-1288
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2015-07-23 00:59 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:22
Severity
Summary
The Spellcheck API implementation in Google Chrome before 44.0.2403.89 does not use an HTTPS session for downloading a Hunspell dictionary, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to deliver incorrect spelling suggestions or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted file, a related issue to CVE-2015-1263.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| chrome | * | ||
| debian | debian_linux | 8.0 | |
| redhat | enterprise_linux_desktop_supplementary | 6.0 | |
| redhat | enterprise_linux_server_supplementary | 6.0 | |
| redhat | enterprise_linux_server_supplementary_eus | 6.7z | |
| redhat | enterprise_linux_workstation_supplementary | 6.0 | |
| opensuse | opensuse | 13.1 | |
| opensuse | opensuse | 13.2 |
{
"affected": [
{
"affectedData": [
{
"product": "n/a",
"vendor": "n/a",
"versions": [
{
"status": "affected",
"version": "n/a"
}
]
}
],
"source": "chrome-cve-admin@google.com"
}
],
"configurations": [
{
"nodes": [
{
"cpeMatch": [
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"matchCriteriaId": "4CD601FD-6060-4CC5-81DA-BDDE41485613",
"versionEndIncluding": "43.0.2357.134",
"vulnerable": true
}
],
"negate": false,
"operator": "OR"
}
]
},
{
"nodes": [
{
"cpeMatch": [
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"matchCriteriaId": "C11E6FB0-C8C0-4527-9AA0-CB9B316F8F43",
"vulnerable": true
}
],
"negate": false,
"operator": "OR"
}
]
},
{
"nodes": [
{
"cpeMatch": [
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop_supplementary:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"matchCriteriaId": "B8C6E104-EDBC-481E-85B8-D39ED2058D39",
"vulnerable": true
},
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_supplementary:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"matchCriteriaId": "4B74C62D-4A6D-4A4F-ADF6-A508322CD447",
"vulnerable": true
},
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_supplementary_eus:6.7z:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"matchCriteriaId": "FE561C57-71DE-434A-85BC-1FAAFDCC7058",
"vulnerable": true
},
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation_supplementary:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"matchCriteriaId": "6E89B38A-3697-46DD-BB3F-E8D2373588BE",
"vulnerable": true
}
],
"negate": false,
"operator": "OR"
}
]
},
{
"nodes": [
{
"cpeMatch": [
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"matchCriteriaId": "A10BC294-9196-425F-9FB0-B1625465B47F",
"vulnerable": true
},
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"matchCriteriaId": "03117DF1-3BEC-4B8D-AD63-DBBDB2126081",
"vulnerable": true
}
],
"negate": false,
"operator": "OR"
}
]
}
],
"cveTags": [],
"descriptions": [
{
"lang": "en",
"value": "The Spellcheck API implementation in Google Chrome before 44.0.2403.89 does not use an HTTPS session for downloading a Hunspell dictionary, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to deliver incorrect spelling suggestions or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted file, a related issue to CVE-2015-1263."
},
{
"lang": "es",
"value": "Vulnerabilidad en la implementaci\u00f3n de Spellcheck API en Google Chrome en versiones anteriores a la 44.0.2403.89, no usa una sesi\u00f3n HTTPS para la descarga de un diccionario Hunspell, lo cual permite realizar ataques de man-in-the-middle empleados para ofrecer sugerencias de ortograf\u00eda incorrectas o posiblemente tener otro impacto no especificado a trav\u00e9s de archivos manipulados, un tema relacionado con CVE-2015-1263."
}
],
"id": "CVE-2015-1288",
"lastModified": "2026-06-17T00:22:07.490",
"metrics": {
"cvssMetricV2": [
{
"acInsufInfo": false,
"baseSeverity": "MEDIUM",
"cvssData": {
"accessComplexity": "MEDIUM",
"accessVector": "NETWORK",
"authentication": "NONE",
"availabilityImpact": "PARTIAL",
"baseScore": 6.8,
"confidentialityImpact": "PARTIAL",
"integrityImpact": "PARTIAL",
"vectorString": "AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P",
"version": "2.0"
},
"exploitabilityScore": 8.6,
"impactScore": 6.4,
"obtainAllPrivilege": false,
"obtainOtherPrivilege": false,
"obtainUserPrivilege": false,
"source": "nvd@nist.gov",
"type": "Primary",
"userInteractionRequired": false
}
]
},
"published": "2015-07-23T00:59:17.350",
"references": [
{
"source": "chrome-cve-admin@google.com",
"url": "http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/07/stable-channel-update_21.html"
},
{
"source": "chrome-cve-admin@google.com",
"url": "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00038.html"
},
{
"source": "chrome-cve-admin@google.com",
"url": "http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1499.html"
},
{
"source": "chrome-cve-admin@google.com",
"url": "http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3315"
},
{
"source": "chrome-cve-admin@google.com",
"url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75973"
},
{
"source": "chrome-cve-admin@google.com",
"url": "http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033031"
},
{
"source": "chrome-cve-admin@google.com",
"url": "https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=479162"
},
{
"source": "chrome-cve-admin@google.com",
"url": "https://codereview.chromium.org/1056103005"
},
{
"source": "chrome-cve-admin@google.com",
"url": "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-09"
},
{
"source": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108",
"url": "http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/07/stable-channel-update_21.html"
},
{
"source": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108",
"url": "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00038.html"
},
{
"source": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108",
"url": "http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1499.html"
},
{
"source": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108",
"url": "http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3315"
},
{
"source": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108",
"url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75973"
},
{
"source": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108",
"url": "http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033031"
},
{
"source": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108",
"url": "https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=479162"
},
{
"source": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108",
"url": "https://codereview.chromium.org/1056103005"
},
{
"source": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108",
"url": "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-09"
}
],
"sourceIdentifier": "chrome-cve-admin@google.com",
"vulnStatus": "Modified",
"weaknesses": [
{
"description": [
{
"lang": "en",
"value": "CWE-17"
}
],
"source": "nvd@nist.gov",
"type": "Primary"
}
]
}
Loading…
Loading…
Experimental. This forecast is provided for visualization only and may change without notice. Do not use it for operational decisions.
Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
| Author | Source | Type | Date | Other |
|---|
Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Loading…
The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
Loading…
Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
Loading…