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CVE-2008-7061

Status: ModifiedMedium (4.3)—Exploit
Severity4.3Medium · CVSS 2.0
Exploitation probability4.26 %higher than 91% of CVEs
Active exploitationNonot in the CISA catalog
Public exploitAvailablePublished on Exploit-DB

The tooltip manager (chrome/views/tooltip_manager.cc) in Google Chrome 0.2.149.29 Build 1798 and possibly other versions before 0.2.149.30 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or crash) via a tag with a long title attribute, which is not properly handled when displaying a tooltip, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-6994. NOTE: there is inconsistent information about the environments under which this issue exists.

CVSS

Base score
4.3
Version
2.0
Vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
4.26 %
Percentile among all scored CVEs
91
Score date
10/21/2026

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

Public exploits

Exploit code or detection templates are publicly available. This is not the same as confirmed active exploitation (KEV), but it raises the risk: patch with priority.

Affected technologies (1)

Google — Chrome

CWEs

References

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Raw JSON (NVD)

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