{
    "id": "CVE-2008-7061",
    "published": "2009-08-24 19:30:00",
    "last_modified": "2026-06-16 23:03:31",
    "cvss_score": "4.3",
    "cvss_severity": "MEDIUM",
    "cvss_version": "2.0",
    "cvss_vector": "AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P",
    "cwe": "CWE-399",
    "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.",
    "epss_score": "0.04256",
    "epss_percentile": "0.90765",
    "kev": 0,
    "kev_due": null,
    "has_exploit": 1,
    "updated_at": "2026-10-03 18:17:08",
    "priority": {
        "rank": 2,
        "label": "Patch early",
        "why": "A public exploit exists."
    },
    "products": [
        {
            "vendor": "google",
            "product": "chrome"
        }
    ],
    "kev_detail": null,
    "exploits": [
        {
            "source": "exploit-db",
            "ref_id": "32311",
            "title": "Google Chrome 0.2.149 - Malformed 'title' Tag Remote Denial of Service",
            "date": "2008-09-02",
            "url": "https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/32311"
        }
    ],
    "refs_list": [
        "http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2008/09/beta-release-0214930.html",
        "http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/chrome/browser/render_widget_host_hwnd.cc?r1=1287&r2=2042&pathrev=2042",
        "http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/chrome/views/tooltip_manager.cc?r1=1287&r2=2042&pathrev=2042",
        "http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome?view=rev&revision=2042",
        "http://www.blackhat.org.il/exploits/chrome-freeze-exploit.html",
        "http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496078/100/0/threaded",
        "http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496094/100/0/threaded",
        "http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496101/100/0/threaded",
        "http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496126/100/0/threaded",
        "http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496138/100/0/threaded",
        "http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496145/100/0/threaded",
        "http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496146/100/0/threaded",
        "http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496151/100/0/threaded",
        "http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496172/100/100/threaded",
        "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30975",
        "https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45039",
        "http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2008/09/beta-release-0214930.html",
        "http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/chrome/browser/render_widget_host_hwnd.cc?r1=1287&r2=2042&pathrev=2042",
        "http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/chrome/views/tooltip_manager.cc?r1=1287&r2=2042&pathrev=2042",
        "http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome?view=rev&revision=2042",
        "http://www.blackhat.org.il/exploits/chrome-freeze-exploit.html",
        "http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496078/100/0/threaded",
        "http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496094/100/0/threaded",
        "http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496101/100/0/threaded",
        "http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496126/100/0/threaded"
    ]
}