CVE-2011-2841

Status: ModifiedMedium (6.8)—Exploit

Severity6.8Medium · CVSS 2.0

Exploitation probability3.69 %higher than 90% of CVEs

Active exploitationNonot in the CISA catalog

Public exploitAvailablePublished on Exploit-DB

Google Chrome before 14.0.835.163 does not properly perform garbage collection during the processing of PDF documents, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted document.

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: 3.69 %
Percentile among all scored CVEs: 90
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.

Published on Exploit-DB · Google Chrome < 14.0.835.163 - '.pdf' File Handling Memory Corruption (10/4/2011)

Affected technologies (1)

Google — Chrome

CWEs

CWE-20

References

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Raw JSON (NVD)

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