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CVE-2011-2789

Status: ModifiedMedium (6.8)—
Severity6.8Medium · CVSS 2.0
Exploitation probability1.19 %higher than 68% of CVEs
Active exploitationNonot in the CISA catalog
Public exploitNot knownno public code found

Use-after-free vulnerability in Google Chrome before 13.0.782.107 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors related to instantiation of the Pepper plug-in.

CVSS

Base score
6.8
Version
2.0
Vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
1.19 %
Percentile among all scored CVEs
68
Score date
10/22/2026

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)

Google — Chrome

CWEs

References

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Raw JSON (NVD)

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