CVE-2009-2974
Status: ModifiedMedium (5)—
Severity5Medium · CVSS 2.0
Exploitation probability1.24 %higher than 69% of CVEs
Active exploitationNonot in the CISA catalog
Public exploitNot knownno public code found
Google Chrome 1.0.154.65, 1.0.154.48, and earlier allows remote attackers to (1) cause a denial of service (application hang) via vectors involving a chromehtml: URI value for the document.location property or (2) cause a denial of service (application hang and CPU consumption) via vectors involving a series of function calls that set a chromehtml: URI value for the document.location property.
CVSS
- Base score
- 5
- Version
- 2.0
- Vector
- AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Exploitation probability (EPSS)
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- 1.24 %
- Percentile among all scored CVEs
- 69
- Score date
- 10/23/2026
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).
Affected technologies (1)
CWEs
- NVD-CWE-Other
References
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- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2009-08/0217.html
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2009-08/0236.html
- http://websecurity.com.ua/3435/
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2009-08/0217.html
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2009-08/0236.html
- http://websecurity.com.ua/3435/
Raw JSON (NVD)
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