CVE-2008-7246

Exp

Google Chrome 0.2.149.29 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (unusable browser) by calling the window.print function in a loop, aka a "printing DoS attack," possibly a related issue to CVE-2009-0821.

Published: 2009-09-18 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2008-7246 is rated High Exploit Risk (63.1/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 2.36%). Core evidence: 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2008-7246

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
12509 exploit_db edb 2010-05-04 Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2008-7246

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 2.79% 2.36% -0.43%
2 2026-03-30 1.68% 2.79% +1.11%
3 2025-03-30 1.68%

Full EPSS history (7 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2008-7246

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.0 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
10.0 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2008-7246

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2008-7246

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
google chrome <= 0.2.149.29 cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
google chrome 0.2.149.27 cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:0.2.149.27:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2008-7246

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