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CVE-2012-5156

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-5156 is a use-after-free vulnerability affecting Google Chrome versions prior to 24.0.1312.52, specifically impacting PDF field handling. This medium-complexity vulnerability (CVSS 6.8) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and potentially achieve other unspecified impacts, including information disclosure and arbitrary code execution. There is no evidence of active exploitation, and no public exploit code is available in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB. Community discussion and media coverage for this CVE are minimal, suggesting low public attention.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
24.0.1273.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:24.0.1273.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
24.0.1274.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:24.0.1274.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
0.98%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
58.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0098 is in the 17th percentile among its peer group of 19,956 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 / 2013/01/stable-channel-update.html
code.google.com / p/chromium/issues/detail
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16330