CVE-2015-1283

Chrome vulnerability

CVSS

6.8

EPSS

15.4%

EPSS pct

96th

Exploited

No known

Multiple integer overflows in the XML_GetBuffer function in Expat through 2.1.0, as used in Google Chrome before 44.0.2403.89 and other products, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted XML data, a related issue to CVE-2015-2716.

Affected vendor

Google

Affected product

Chrome

CVSS vector

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

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-190 — Integer Overflow or Wraparound

Published

2015-07-23

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, medium attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 15.4% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 96% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2015-1283

Confirm whether Google Chrome is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2015-1283.
Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

How ThreatPort helps with CVE-2015-1283

ThreatPort's external attack surface scanner checks your internet-facing assets — agentlessly, from the outside in — for the exposed services and versions that CVE-2015-1283 affects, then prioritises the finding by real risk using CISA KEV and FIRST.org EPSS.

Run a free external exposure scan

Are you exposed to CVE-2015-1283?

Run an instant, non-intrusive external scan to check your attack surface for CVE-2015-1283.

Start free scan

No credit card. Agentless.

Related vulnerabilities

MEDIUM

CVE-2024-1781

X6000r Firmware vulnerability

Tew 822dre Firmware vulnerability