CVE-2012-2831 is a use-after-free vulnerability in Google Chrome versions prior to 20.0.1132.43, specifically impacting SVG references. This flaw carries a CVSS score of 7.5, indicating a high severity, as it can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity, potentially leading to denial of service, information disclosure, or arbitrary code execution. While there is no evidence of active exploitation (not in KEV) and no public exploit code in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion and media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(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 version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.