CVE-2012-2846
Status: ModifiedMedium (5)—
Severity5Medium · CVSS 2.0
Exploitation probability0.83 %higher than 57% of CVEs
Active exploitationNonot in the CISA catalog
Public exploitNot knownno public code found
Google Chrome before 21.0.1180.57 on Linux does not properly isolate renderer processes, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (cross-process interference) via unspecified vectors.
CVSS
- Base score
- 5
- Version
- 2.0
- Vector
- AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Exploitation probability (EPSS)
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- 0.83 %
- Percentile among all scored CVEs
- 57
- Score date
- 10/22/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).
Affected technologies (1)
CWEs
- NVD-CWE-Other
References
Raw JSON (NVD)
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