CVE-2008-7061
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…
- 4.3MediumCVSS base score
- 4.3%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 8.9% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
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.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it.
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- Google Chrome 0.2.149 - Malformed 'title' Tag Remote Denial of Service (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 32311dos, multiplepublished 2 Sept 2008Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
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Published
- 15 years later
· 15 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.3% · top 8.9% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
16
- 20080908 Re: Chrome(0.2.149.27) title(not the tag) Denial of Service(Freeze) exploit (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20080909 Re: Chrome(0.2.149.27) title(not the tag) Denial of Service(Freeze) exploit (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 30975 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 20080910 Re: Chrome(0.2.149.27) title(not the tag) Denial of Service(Freeze) exploit (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20080908 Re: Chrome(0.2.149.27) title(not the tag) Denial of Service(Freeze) exploit (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- google-chrome-titletag-dos(45039) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 20080908 Chrome(0.2.149.27) title(not the tag) Denial of Service(Freeze) exploit (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20080909 Re: Chrome(0.2.149.27) title(not the tag) Denial of Service(Freeze) exploit (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20080908 Re: Chrome(0.2.149.27) title(not the tag) Denial of Service(Freeze) exploit (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2008/09/beta-release-0214930.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/chrome/views/tooltip_manager.cc?r1=1287&r2=2042&pathrev=2042 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 20080909 Re: Chrome(0.2.149.27) title(not the tag) Denial of Service(Freeze) exploit (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://www.blackhat.org.il/exploits/chrome-freeze-exploit.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome?view=rev&revision=2042 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 20080908 Re: Chrome(0.2.149.27) title(not the tag) Denial of Service(Freeze) exploit (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/chrome/browser/render_widget_host_hwnd.cc?r1=1287&r2=2042&pathrev=2042 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2008-7020 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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