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CVE-2008-4340
Google Chrome 0.2.149.29 and 0.2.149.30 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via an HTML document…
Medium4.3EPSS 4.2%
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- mitre
Description
Google Chrome 0.2.149.29 and 0.2.149.30 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via an HTML document containing a carriage return ("\r\n\r\n") argument to the window.open function.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.2% · top 9.0% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (6)
- 4339 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- 6554 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- google-chrome-carriagereturn-dos(45403) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://secniche.org/gcrds.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 31375 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 20080924 Advisory : Google Chrome Carriage Return Null Object Memory Exhaustion Remote Dos. (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
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- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
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- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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