CVE-2010-4491

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-12-07 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Google Chrome before 8.0.552.215 does not properly restrict privileged extensions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted extension.

Affected products

Google Chrome: through 8.0.552.214

References

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=62168
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/12/stable-beta-channel-updates.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/42472
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11991
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=62168
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/12/stable-beta-channel-updates.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/42472
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11991

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