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CVE-2012-4929

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-4929, known as the "CRIME" attack, affects TLS 1.2 and earlier versions in products like Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Qt. This vulnerability allows man-in-the-middle attackers to decrypt sensitive HTTP header information by exploiting compression in TLS. The attack has a low severity CVSS score of 2.6, requiring high attack complexity (AC:H) to achieve partial confidentiality (C:P) of data. While there is no known active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion and media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.6LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
4.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.27%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
90.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0427 is in the 90th percentile among its peer group of 1,506 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.3 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

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 (8)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: openssl-0:0.9.8e-26.el5_9.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: openssl-0:1.0.0-27.el6_4.2
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: RHEV 3.X Hypervisor and Agents for RHEL-6Fixed in: rhev-hypervisor6-0:6.4-20130306.2.el6_4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: RHEV Manager version 3.3Fixed in: spice-client-msi-0:3.3-12
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: gnutls
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: gnutls
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: gnutls
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: openssl098e

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2012-4929Moderate

SSL/TLS CRIME attack against HTTPS

Sep 13, 2012

References

arstechnica.com / security/2012/09/crime-hijacks-https-sessions
code.google.com / p/chromium/issues/detail
isecpartners.com / blog/2012/9/14/details-on-the-crime-attack.html
jvndb.jvn.jp / en/contents/2016/JVNDB-2016-000129.html
jvn.jp / en/jp/JVN65273415/index.html
lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2013/Jun/msg00000.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2013-April/101366.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2012-10/msg00096.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2013-01/msg00034.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2013-01/msg00048.html
marc.info
news.ycombinator.com / item
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-0587.html
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
chromiumcodereview.appspot.com / 10825183
community.qualys.com / blogs/securitylabs/2012/09/14/crime-information-leakage-attack-against-ssltls
security.stackexchange.com / questions/19911/crime-how-to-beat-the-beast-successor
gist.github.com / 3696912
github.com / mpgn/CRIME-poc
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18920
threatpost.com / en_us/blogs/demo-crime-tls-attack-091212
support.apple.com / kb/HT5784
threatpost.com / en_us/blogs/crime-attack-uses-compression-ratio-tls-requests-side-channel-hijack-secure-sessions-091312
threatpost.com / en_us/blogs/new-attack-uses-ssltls-information-leak-hijack-https-sessions-090512
debian.org / security/2012/dsa-2579
debian.org / security/2013/dsa-2627
debian.org / security/2015/dsa-3253
ekoparty.org / 2012/thai-duong.php
iacr.org / cryptodb/data/paper.php
securityfocus.com / bid/55704
theregister.co.uk / 2012/09/14/crime_tls_attack
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-1627-1
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-1628-1
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-1898-1