VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2015-1317

high
Published 2015-04-08 · 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
7.5

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in Oxide before 1.5.6 and 1.6.x before 1.6.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code by deleting all WebContents while a RenderProcessHost instance still exists.

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.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
ubuntu ubuntu14.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu14.10affected

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
oxide_projectoxide{"endIncluding":"1.5.5"}
oxide_projectoxide1.6.0

References

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

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