Vulnerability in Google Chrome

CVE-2011-0474

Google Chrome before 8.0.552.237 and Chrome OS before 8.0.552.344 do not properly handle Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) token sequences in conjunction with cursors, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors that lead to a "stale pointer."

Published 2011-01-14 · last modified 2026-06-16.

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 10.0 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.028 (86.1th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 86th percentile — 86.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.028 · newest: 0.028 · change: 0.000

Affected products

References

code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail (Exploit, Patch, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14443 (signature, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2011/01/chrome-stable-release.html (Vendor Advisory)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/45788 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
osvdb.org/70457 (vdb-entry, Broken Link)
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64665 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
www.srware.net/forum/viewtopic.php (Third Party Advisory)
www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2188 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
secunia.com/advisories/42951 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)