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CVE-2012-2893

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-2893 describes a double free vulnerability in libxslt, specifically impacting Google Chrome versions prior to 22.0.1229.79. This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service or potentially achieve other unspecified impacts through malicious XSL transforms. With a CVSS score of 6.8, this vulnerability is moderately severe, requiring medium attack complexity (AC:M) and potentially leading to partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts (C:P/I:P/A:P) if exploited over the network (AV:N). There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
22.0.1229.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:22.0.1229.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
22.0.1229.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:22.0.1229.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.8MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.48%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
71.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0148 is in the 44th percentile among its peer group of 19,955 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 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 (2)

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

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2012-2893Low

libxslt: Heap-double-free in xmlFreeNodeList

Sep 25, 2012

References

git.chromium.org / gitweb
googlechromereleases.blogspot.com / 2012/09/stable-channel-update_25.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2012-10/msg00012.html
chromiumcodereview.appspot.com / 10919019
code.google.com / p/chromium/issues/detail
secunia.com / advisories/50838
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15714
src.chromium.org / viewvc/chrome
debian.org / security/2012/dsa-2555
mandriva.com / security/advisories