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CVE-2012-2825

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-2825 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the XSL implementation of Google Chrome versions prior to 20.0.1132.43. This vulnerability, rated with a CVSS score of 5.0, allows remote attackers to trigger an incorrect read operation, leading to a denial of service. The attack requires no authentication and has low complexity, but its impact is limited to availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

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

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.14%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
80.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0214 is in the 69th percentile among its peer group of 23,701 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: libxslt-0:1.1.17-4.el5_8.3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: libxslt-0:1.1.26-2.el6_3.1
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: libxslt

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2012-2825Moderate

libxslt: DoS when reading unexpected DTD nodes in XSLT

Jun 26, 2012

References

code.google.com / p/chromium/issues/detail
googlechromereleases.blogspot.com / 2012/06/stable-channel-update_26.html
lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2013/Oct/msg00009.html
lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2013/Sep/msg00006.html
secunia.com / advisories/54886
hermes.opensuse.org / messages/15075728
support.apple.com / kb/HT5934
support.apple.com / kb/HT6001
suse.com / support/update/announcement/2013/suse-su-20131654-1.html
suse.com / support/update/announcement/2013/suse-su-20131656-1.html