CVE-2012-2868

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-08-31 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-362

Description

Race condition in Google Chrome before 21.0.1180.89 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors involving improper interaction between worker processes and an XMLHttpRequest (aka XHR) object.

Affected products

Google Chrome: through 21.0.1180.88; 21.0.1180.0, 21.0.1180.1, 21.0.1180.2, 21.0.1180.31, 21.0.1180.32, 21.0.1180.33 (+45)
Opensuse: 12.1, 12.2

References

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=136881
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2012/08/stable-channel-update_30.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00030.html
http://osvdb.org/85033
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78177
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15842
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=136881
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2012/08/stable-channel-update_30.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00030.html
http://osvdb.org/85033
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78177
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15842

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