CVE-2015-1241

medium

Published 2015-04-19 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

4.3

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status
ubuntu	14.04	affected
ubuntu	14.10	affected
ubuntu	15.04	affected
debian	8.0	affected
rhel	6.0	affected
rhel	6.6	affected
suse	13.1	affected
suse	13.2	affected

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
google	chrome	`{"endExcluding":"42.0.2311.90"}`	`42.0.2311.90`

References

CWEs

CWE-1021

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.