Vulnerability in Google Chrome

CVE-2011-3080

Race condition in the Inter-process Communication (IPC) implementation in Google Chrome before 18.0.1025.168 allows attackers to bypass intended sandbox restrictions via unspecified vectors.

Vulnerability class: Race Condition

Published 2012-05-01 · last modified 2026-06-16.

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 7.6 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.011 (65.5th percentile), scored 2026-10-02.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 66th percentile — 65.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.012 · newest: 0.011 · change: -0.000

Affected products

Google Chrome

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-362 — Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization (Race Condition)

References

googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2012/04/stable-channel-update_30.html (Release Notes, Vendor Advisory)
secunia.com/advisories/48992 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail (Vendor Advisory)
www.securitytracker.com/id (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75272 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
osvdb.org/81646 (vdb-entry, Broken Link)
oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:15623 (signature, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/53309 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)