{"id":"CVE-2008-4340","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2008-4340","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T19:38:33.885Z","title":"Google Chrome 0.2.149.29 and 0.2.149.30 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via an HTML document containing a carriage return (\"\\r\\n\\r\\n\") argument to the window.open function.","description":"Google Chrome 0.2.149.29 and 0.2.149.30 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via an HTML document containing a carriage return (\"\\r\\n\\r\\n\") argument to the window.open function.","published":"2008-09-30T17:22:09.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T22:57:38.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":4.3,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P"},"cwe":["CWE-20"],"affected":["google/chrome"],"epss":{"score":0.04206,"percentile":0.90899,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":1,"verified":true,"firstPublished":"2008-09-24","source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[{"edbId":6554,"kind":"exploit","title":"Google Chrome - Carriage Return Null Object Memory Exhaustion","url":"https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6554","sourceUrl":"https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb/-/blob/main/exploits/windows/dos/6554.html","file":"exploits/windows/dos/6554.html","published":"2008-09-24","added":"2008-09-23","updated":"2016-10-30","author":"Aditya K Sood","type":"dos","platform":"windows","port":null,"verified":true,"codes":["OSVDB-48680","CVE-2008-4340"],"tags":null,"aliases":null,"applicationUrl":null,"screenshotUrl":null,"referenceUrl":null}]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"A public exploit is published in Exploit-DB (verified), so the technical barrier is gone even though the severity is medium and EPSS is 4.2%. Treat it as high on anything reachable from the internet."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://secniche.org/gcrds.html","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4339","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496688/100/0/threaded","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31375","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45403","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6554","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://secniche.org/gcrds.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4339","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496688/100/0/threaded","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31375","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45403","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6554","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-4340","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}