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CVE-2015-1242
The ReduceTransitionElementsKind function in hydrogen-check-elimination.cc in Google V8 before 4.2.77.8, as used in Google Chrome before…
High7.5EPSS 3.0%
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- Chrome
Description
The ReduceTransitionElementsKind function in hydrogen-check-elimination.cc in Google V8 before 4.2.77.8, as used in Google Chrome before 42.0.2311.90, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted JavaScript code that leverages "type confusion" in the check-elimination optimization.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.0% · top 13% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (11)
- RHSA-2015:0816 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- USN-2570-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- DSA-3238 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2015:1887 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- GLSA-201506-04 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- https://codereview.chromium.org/1019033004 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://codereview.chromium.org/1000893003 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1032209 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2015:0748 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=460917 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/04/stable-channel-update_14.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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