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CVE-2012-2876

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-2876 describes a buffer overflow vulnerability within the SSE2 optimization functionality of Google Chrome versions prior to 22.0.1229.79, also affecting related OpenSUSE Chrome packages. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 7.5, indicating high severity, and could allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service or potentially achieve other unspecified impacts with low attack complexity. 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, suggesting it was noted by security researchers at the time.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
12.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:12.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
12.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:12.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 22.0.1229.78CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
22.0.1229.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:22.0.1229.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
22.0.1229.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:22.0.1229.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.35%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
68.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0135 is in the 49th percentile among its peer group of 51,466 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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.

Media Mentions

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

googlechromereleases.blogspot.com / 2012/09/stable-channel-update_25.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2012-10/msg00012.html
code.google.com / p/chromium/issues/detail
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/78826
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15034