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CVE-2012-2764

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2012-06-27 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Google Chrome before 20.0.1132.43 on Windows might allow local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse Metro DLL in the current working directory.

Affected products

• Google Chrome: through 20.0.1132.42; 20.0.1132.0, 20.0.1132.1, 20.0.1132.2, 20.0.1132.3, 20.0.1132.4, 20.0.1132.5 (+36)

References

• http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=130276
• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2012/06/stable-channel-update_26.html
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15375
• http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=130276
• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2012/06/stable-channel-update_26.html
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15375

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