CVE-2015-6779 (GCVE-0-2015-6779)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-12-06 01:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 07:29
VLAI
Summary
PDFium, as used in Google Chrome before 47.0.2526.73, does not properly restrict use of chrome: URLs, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended scheme restrictions via a crafted PDF document, as demonstrated by a document with a link to a chrome://settings URL.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
Chrome CNA under the Google root
CNA scorecard E 43/100 over 3013 records in the last 180 days details
References
Date Public
2015-12-01 00:00
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    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.