CVE-2011-3049: Google Chrome

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Google Chrome before 17.0.963.83 does not properly restrict the extension web request API, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (disrupted system requests) via a crafted extension.

Affected products

• Google Chrome: before 17.0.963.83 (fixed in 17.0.963.83)
• Opensuse Opensuse: version 12.1 only

Published 2012-03-23. Last modified 2026-06-16.