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CVE-2012-5149

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-5149 describes an integer overflow vulnerability in the audio IPC layer of Google Chrome versions prior to 24.0.1312.52, also affecting Google OpenSUSE and OpenSUSE Chrome. This flaw carries a CVSS score of 7.5, indicating high severity, and could allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service or potentially other unspecified impacts with low attack complexity and no authentication required. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, suggesting awareness within the cybersecurity community.

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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 24.0.1312.51CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
24.0.1272.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:24.0.1272.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
24.0.1272.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:24.0.1272.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.08%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
61.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0108 is in the 39th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 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 / 2013/01/stable-channel-update.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2013-02/msg00005.html
code.google.com / p/chromium/issues/detail
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15865