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CVE-2012-2851

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-2851 describes multiple integer overflows within the PDF functionality of Google Chrome, affecting versions prior to 21.0.1180.57 on Mac OS X and Linux, and before 21.0.1180.60 on Windows and Chrome Frame. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service or potentially achieve other unspecified impacts through a specially crafted PDF document. With a CVSS score of 6.8, it is considered medium severity, requiring medium attack complexity and potentially leading to partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. While there is no evidence of active exploitation (KEV: No) and no public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB: None), the vulnerability has garnered some community attention with one mention and one media article.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 21.0.1180.56CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
21.0.1180.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:21.0.1180.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
21.0.1180.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:21.0.1180.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
21.0.1180.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:21.0.1180.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
21.0.1180.31CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:21.0.1180.31:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.8MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.11%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
62.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0111 is in the 24th percentile among its peer group of 19,955 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

code.google.com / p/chromium/issues/detail
code.google.com / p/chromium/issues/detail
code.google.com / p/chromium/issues/detail
googlechromereleases.blogspot.com / 2012/07/stable-channel-release.html
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15705