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CVE-2012-4930

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-4930 describes a "CRIME" attack affecting SPDY protocol 3 and earlier, found in products like Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. This vulnerability allows man-in-the-middle attackers to decrypt encrypted HTTP headers by observing length differences in compressed data. The CVSS score of 2.6 indicates a low severity, with a network attack vector and high attack complexity, potentially leading to partial confidentiality compromise. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion, suggesting a low current threat.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
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
2.08%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
79.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0208 is in the 74th 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

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

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2012-4930

SPDY: SSL/TLS CRIME attack

Sep 13, 2012

References

arstechnica.com / security/2012/09/crime-hijacks-https-sessions
isecpartners.com / blog/2012/9/14/details-on-the-crime-attack.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2012-10/msg00010.html
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
community.qualys.com / blogs/securitylabs/2012/09/14/crime-information-leakage-attack-against-ssltls
threatpost.com / en_us/blogs/crime-attack-uses-compression-ratio-tls-requests-side-channel-hijack-secure-sessions-091312
ekoparty.org / 2012/thai-duong.php
iacr.org / cryptodb/data/paper.php
theregister.co.uk / 2012/09/14/crime_tls_attack