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CVE-2012-5136

24
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-5136 is a vulnerability in Google Chrome versions prior to 23.0.1271.91, affecting Google Chrome and OpenSUSE distributions. It stems from improper variable casting during INPUT element handling, allowing remote attackers to trigger a denial of service or potentially other impacts through crafted HTML. With a CVSS score of 6.8 (medium severity), it requires user interaction (medium complexity) and could lead to partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or KEV listing, though it has seen minimal community discussion and media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 23.0.1271.89CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
23.0.1271.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:23.0.1271.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
23.0.1271.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:23.0.1271.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
23.0.1271.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:23.0.1271.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
23.0.1271.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:23.0.1271.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.34%
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 39th percentile among its peer group of 19,954 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

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 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 / 2012/11/stable-channel-update.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2012-12/msg00004.html
osvdb.org / 87885
code.google.com / p/chromium/issues/detail
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/80296
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15929
securityfocus.com / bid/56684
securitytracker.com / id