CVE-2015-1229: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

net/http/proxy_client_socket.cc in Google Chrome before 41.0.2272.76 does not properly handle a 407 (aka Proxy Authentication Required) HTTP status code accompanied by a Set-Cookie header, which allows remote proxy servers to conduct cookie-injection attacks via a crafted response.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 14.04 only; version 14.10 only
• Google Chrome: up to and including 40.0.2214.115
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary: version 6.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 6.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary Eus: version 6.6.z only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary: version 6.0 only

Published 2015-03-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.