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CVE-2009-3933
WebKit before r50173, as used in Google Chrome before 3.0.195.32, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption)…
Medium5.0EPSS 3.1%
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- mitre
Description
WebKit before r50173, as used in Google Chrome before 3.0.195.32, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a web page that calls the JavaScript setInterval method, which triggers an incompatibility between the WTF::currentTime and base::Time functions.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.1% · top 12% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (12)
- 43068 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2009/11/stable-channel-update.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- ADV-2011-0212 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/50173 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30833 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://codereview.chromium.org/339039 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- googlechrome-webkit-dos(54297) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=25892 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- SUSE-SR:2011:002 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome?view=rev&revision=30311 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/branches/195/src/webkit/webkit.gyp?r1=30311&r2=30310 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 59745 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_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)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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