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CVE-2012-2888

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-2888 is a use-after-free vulnerability in Google Chrome versions prior to 22.0.1229.79, affecting Google Chrome and OpenSUSE Chrome. This flaw, stemming from SVG text references, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or potentially achieve other unspecified impacts. With a CVSS score of 7.5 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P), it is a high-severity vulnerability that can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity, leading to potential confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation (KEV: No), and no public exploit code is available (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB: None), though it has received some community discussion and media coverage.

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
1.24%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
66.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0124 is in the 45th percentile among its peer group of 51,506 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/78829
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15612