CVE-2008-6996
Google Chrome BETA (v0.2.149.27) no pide confirmacion al usuario antes de descargar un fichero ejecutable, lo cual facilita a atacantes remotos o malware producir una denegacion de servicio (consumo del espacio de disco) o explotar otras vulnerabilidades a traves de una URL que haga referencia a un fichero ejecutable, posiblemente relacionado con la caracteristica "preguntar donde guardar antes de iniciar descarga"
CVSS
- Puntuación base
- 5
- Versión
- 2.0
- Vector
- AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)
- Probabilidad de explotación en los próximos 30 días
- 6.42 %
- Percentil entre todas las CVEs puntuadas
- 94
- Fecha de la puntuación
- 21/10/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, de FIRST) estima la probabilidad de que una vulnerabilidad sea explotada en 30 días. Complementa a CVSS (impacto) y a CISA KEV (explotación confirmada).
Exploits públicos
Hay código de explotación o plantillas de detección públicos. No es lo mismo que explotación activa confirmada (KEV), pero aumenta el riesgo: parchee con prioridad.
- Publicado en Exploit-DB · Google Chrome 0.2.149.27 - Automatic File Download (3/9/2008)
Tecnologías afectadas (1)
CWE
- NVD-CWE-noinfo
Referencias
Mostrar las 26 referencias
- http://codereview.chromium.org/472/diff/1/2
- http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome?view=rev&revision=1793
- http://www.osvdb.org/48261
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495942/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495951/100/100/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495954/100/100/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495959/100/100/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495987/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496048/100/100/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496049
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31000
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44904
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6355
- http://codereview.chromium.org/472/diff/1/2
- http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome?view=rev&revision=1793
- http://www.osvdb.org/48261
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495942/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495951/100/100/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495954/100/100/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495959/100/100/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495987/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496048/100/100/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496049
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31000
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44904
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6355
JSON original (NVD)
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