CVE-2015-6759 Information disclosure in n/a

What is CVE-2015-6759?

CVE-2015-6759 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Google Chrome, published on 15 Oct 2015. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

The shouldTreatAsUniqueOrigin function in platform/weborigin/SecurityOrigin.cpp in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 46.0.2490.71, does not ensure that the origin of a LocalStorage resource is considered unique, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via vectors involving a blob: URL.

Weakness: CWE-200

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-6759?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Chrome.

How do I fix CVE-2015-6759?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2015-6759 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-6759 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Google Chrome

• CVE-2022-4135 Google Chromium GPU Heap Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.6
• CVE-2020-16017 Google Chrome Use-After-Free Exploited Critical 9.6
• CVE-2020-16010 Google Chrome for Android UI Heap Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.6
• CVE-2026-87491 Google Chromium V8 Out of Bounds Write Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2026-85046 Google Chromium V8 Type Confusion Exploited High 8.8

All Google Chrome vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-7qvm-pj8m-x4wc, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-6759.