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CVE-2012-5376

Status: ModifiedCritical (9.6)—
Severity9.6Critical · CVSS 3.1
Exploitation probability2.14 %higher than 82% of CVEs
Active exploitationNonot in the CISA catalog
Public exploitNot knownno public code found

The Inter-process Communication (IPC) implementation in Google Chrome before 22.0.1229.94 allows remote attackers to bypass intended sandbox restrictions and write to arbitrary files by leveraging access to a renderer process, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-5112.

CVSS

Base score
9.6
Version
3.1
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
2.14 %
Percentile among all scored CVEs
82
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)

Google — Chrome

CWEs

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