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CVE-2010-4491

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-4491 describes a vulnerability in Google Chrome versions prior to 8.0.552.215, where improper restrictions on privileged extensions could lead to a denial of service. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 4.3) requires user interaction to install a crafted extension, resulting in memory corruption. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this decade-old CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 8.0.552.214CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.90%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
55.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0090 is in the 13th percentile among its peer group of 19,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

code.google.com / p/chromium/issues/detail
googlechromereleases.blogspot.com / 2010/12/stable-beta-channel-updates.html
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/42472
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11991