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CVE-2012-2852

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-2852 is a use-after-free vulnerability in the PDF functionality of Google Chrome, affecting versions prior to 21.0.1180.57 on Mac OS X and Linux, and prior to 21.0.1180.60 on Windows and Chrome Frame. This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service or potentially other unspecified impacts through a crafted PDF document. With a CVSS score of 6.8 (medium severity), it requires user interaction (AC:M) and can lead to partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts (C:P/I:P/A:P). There is no evidence of active exploitation, no known public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and minimal community discussion or media coverage, indicating low current threat activity.

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
1.16%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
64.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0116 is in the 28th 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
googlechromereleases.blogspot.com / 2012/07/stable-channel-release.html
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15744