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CVE-2011-3971

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2011-3971 is a use-after-free vulnerability in Google Chrome versions prior to 17.0.963.46, also affecting Apple products utilizing Chrome's rendering engine like Safari and iTunes. This medium-complexity vulnerability, triggered by user-assisted mousemove events, could lead to a denial of service or potentially other unspecified impacts, with a CVSS score of 6.8. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or readily available exploit code, the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness within the cybersecurity community.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 17.0.963.46CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 10.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apple:itunes:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apple:safari:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:iphone_os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.8MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.52%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
72.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0152 is in the 46th percentile among its peer group of 19,955 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

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 / 2012/02/stable-channel-update.html
lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2012/Jul/msg00000.html
lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2012/Sep/msg00001.html
lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2012/Sep/msg00003.html
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14960
support.apple.com / kb/HT5400
support.apple.com / kb/HT5485
support.apple.com / kb/HT5503