CVE-2011-3079
HIGH · CVSS 10.0EPSS 1.4%EU EUVD
The Inter-process Communication (IPC) implementation in Google Chrome before 18.0.1025.168, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 38.0 and other products, does not properly validate messages, which has unspecified impact and attack vectors.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 10.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-399
- EPSS score
- 1.4% (73th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2011-3047)
- Published
- May 1, 2012
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2011-3047 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- google / chrome
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / seamonkey
- mozilla / thunderbird
- opensuse / opensuse
- opensuse / opensuse
References
- http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=117627
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2012/04/stable-channel-update_30.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00012.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00031.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-05/msg00036.html
- http://osvdb.org/81645
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1012.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48992
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3260
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-57.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53309
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027001
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1087565
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75271
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14964
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/thunderbird/#thunderbird31.7
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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