CVE-2012-5139 is a critical use-after-free vulnerability affecting Google Chrome versions prior to 23.0.1271.97, as well as related OpenSUSE distributions. With a CVSS score of 10.0, this vulnerability allows unauthenticated remote attackers to trigger a denial of service or potentially achieve arbitrary code execution with high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no public exploit code available, nor is it listed on the CISA KEV catalog, indicating it is not actively exploited. While there's limited community discussion and media coverage, its high FAUCET Risk Score of 82/100 underscores its potential severity.
| Vendor | Product | Version(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:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 23.0.1271.96CPE 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:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.