CVE-2012-2862
Status: ModifiedMedium (6.8)—
Severity6.8Medium · CVSS 2.0
Exploitation probability1.12 %higher than 66% of CVEs
Active exploitationNonot in the CISA catalog
Public exploitNot knownno public code found
Use-after-free vulnerability in the PDF functionality in Google Chrome before 21.0.1180.75 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted document.
CVSS
- Base score
- 6.8
- Version
- 2.0
- Vector
- AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Exploitation probability (EPSS)
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- 1.12 %
- Percentile among all scored CVEs
- 66
- 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
- CWE-399
References
Show 10 references
- http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=136643
- http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=137721
- http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=137957
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2012/08/stable-channel-update.html
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14788
- http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=136643
- http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=137721
- http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=137957
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2012/08/stable-channel-update.html
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14788
Raw JSON (NVD)
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