CVE-2012-2877

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-09-26 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The extension system in Google Chrome before 22.0.1229.79 does not properly handle modal dialogs, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

Google Chrome: through 22.0.1229.78; 22.0.1229.0, 22.0.1229.1, 22.0.1229.2, 22.0.1229.3, 22.0.1229.4, 22.0.1229.6 (+46)
Opensuse: 12.1, 12.2

References

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2012/09/stable-channel-update_25.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-10/msg00012.html
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=137707
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78832
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15857
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2012/09/stable-channel-update_25.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-10/msg00012.html
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=137707
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78832
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15857

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