Vulnerability in Google Chrome

CVE-2008-6997

Google Chrome 0.2.149.27 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (browser crash) via an IMG tag with a long src attribute, which triggers the crash when the victim performs an "Inspect Element" action.

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CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.037 (89.3th percentile), scored .

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 89th percentile — 89.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2008-6997: held from 0.037 to 0.037.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.037 · newest: 0.037 · change: 0.000

Affected products

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