CVE-2009-3933: Webkit

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 3.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

WebKit before r50173, as used in Google Chrome before 3.0.195.32, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a web page that calls the JavaScript setInterval method, which triggers an incompatibility between the WTF::currentTime and base::Time functions.

Affected products

• Webkit Webkit: up to and including r50173

Published 2009-11-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.