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CVE-2012-2764

30
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-2764 describes an untrusted search path vulnerability in Google Chrome versions prior to 20.0.1132.43 on Windows, allowing local privilege escalation through a malicious Metro DLL. With a CVSS score of 7.2, this vulnerability is considered high severity due to its local attack vector and potential for complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not listed in CISA KEV and showing no active exploitation, public exploit code exists on ExploitDB, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 20.0.1132.42CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
20.0.1132.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:20.0.1132.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
20.0.1132.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:20.0.1132.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
20.0.1132.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:20.0.1132.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
20.0.1132.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:20.0.1132.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.2HIGH

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.45%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
36.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-37510 · Jun 26, 2012
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0045 is in the 54th percentile among its peer group of 3,237 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.5 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 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 / 2012/06/stable-channel-update_26.html
Vendor Advisory
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15375