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CVE-2012-5139

29
FAUCET Score

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.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(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 Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

10.0HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.65%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
74.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0165 is in the 56th percentile among its peer group of 51,506 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 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 / 2012/12/stable-channel-update.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2012-12/msg00073.html
code.google.com / p/chromium/issues/detail
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16064