Is CVE-2010-4198 being actively exploited?

CVE-2010-4198 is not currently listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog.

What is the CVSS score for CVE-2010-4198?

CVE-2010-4198 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 8.8 (HIGH).

CVE-2010-4198

HIGH · CVSS 8.8EPSS 1.5%EU EUVD

WebKit, as used in Google Chrome before 7.0.517.44, webkitgtk before 1.2.6, and other products, does not properly handle large text areas, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted HTML document.

Key facts

CVSS score: 8.8 (v3.1)
Severity: HIGH
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE): CWE-20
EPSS score: 1.5% (74th percentile)
In CISA KEV: No
In EU EUVD: Yes (EUVD-2010-4172)
Published: November 6, 2010
NVD last modified: June 16, 2026
Status: Modified

EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)

This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2010-4172 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.

View on the EU Vulnerability Database

Affected products

fedoraproject / fedora
google / chrome
webkitgtk / webkitgtk

References

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=55257(Release Notes, Vendor Advisory)
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/11/stable-channel-update.html(Vendor Advisory)
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/052906.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
http://secunia.com/advisories/42109(Broken Link)
http://secunia.com/advisories/43086(Broken Link)
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:039(Broken Link)
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0177.html(Not Applicable)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45719(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0216(Not Applicable)
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0552(Not Applicable)
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45611(Permissions Required, Vendor Advisory)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656118(Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory)
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12157(Third Party Advisory)

Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS

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